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Entries Tagged as 'Experiment'

Fail Fast, Fail Early (at what?)

September 21st, 2020 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Fail fast, fair early is a mantra in today’s knowledge work. Sometimes, however, we are confused about what is a failure. Fail fast, fail early! (Some persons say it the other way around and mean the same thing.) The idea is simple: Try something Learn something Adjust Go back to step 1. […]

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Tags: Engineering · Experiment · Failure · General Systems Thinking · Improvement · Learning · Practice

A Successful Experiment

October 28th, 2019 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Good tests and experiments provide useful information. Sometimes the information isn’t what we want to hear, but we need to keep the two separate. In France recently, tests were performed to learn if roadways could generate electrical energy from the sun. They learned that roadways were not a good place for solar […]

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Tags: Experiment · Information · Research · Science · Testing