{"id":1036,"date":"2008-01-06T21:55:19","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T05:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/06\/increasing-your-rate-of-failure\/"},"modified":"2008-01-06T21:55:19","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T05:55:19","slug":"increasing-your-rate-of-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/06\/increasing-your-rate-of-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Increasing your rate of failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hbswk.hbs.edu\/item\/5588.html\">Cool article<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/hbswk.hbs.edu\/\">HBS<\/a> that was published this past April. In it, the author put a new spin on one of my favorite quotes, supposedly spoken by Thomas Watson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The gist of the research was this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In well-led teams, a climate of openness could make it easier to report and discuss errors\u00e2\u20ac\u201dcompared to teams with poor relationships or with punitive leaders. The good teams, according to this interpretation, don&#8217;t make more mistakes, they report more. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So the quote I like so much might be reworded to be something like this: If you want to increase your success rate, foster a culture of openness where recognizing and reporting mistakes is encouraged.<\/p>\n<p>Takeaway for software development teams? A decreasing number of bugs may not be indicative of a good product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool article from HBS that was published this past April. In it, the author put a new spin on one of my favorite quotes, supposedly spoken by Thomas Watson: If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. The gist of the research was this: In well-led teams, a climate of openness &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/06\/increasing-your-rate-of-failure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Increasing your rate of failure<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}