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fail fast

/feɪl fɑːst/ - phr.

1 [colloq.] A slogan repeated until the first failure, after which it is replaced by the question of who approved the experiment.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A practice of testing ideas in small, cheap experiments so the wrong ones are abandoned early and the learning is kept.

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See also

change managementThe workstream that explains the new tool to the people who will still lack the authority the old tool was missing.
data cultureThe thing a poster is bought to fix, on the model of curing a leak by framing a photograph of a dry ceiling.
okrsA quarterly ritual that converts work into numbers, then converts the numbers back into the work that was always going to happen anyway. Graded green by the same team that set them.
quick winA dashboard delivered fast to defer the slow question of who acts on it. The win is quick because the hard part was left out of scope.