Make [bad] decisions more often
Viktor Farcic: Are you saying that organizations and people in IT departments should make bad decisions more often?
Nirmal Mehta: If you're deploying four times a year, then you only have four opportunities to make a decision, and therefore each of those decisions has a big impact. If you are in Agile, you're making a lot of smaller decisions. If you make a bad decision, you can just correct it at the next deadline, and you've lost very little. That's the irony.
"If you are in Agile, you're making a lot of smaller decisions. If you make a bad decision, you can just correct it at the next deadline, and you've lost very little."
—Nirmal Mehta
Of course, it's still painful if you've made a bad decision, but for some reason we humans find it more painful to have to make a decision every two weeks.
I think these kinds of things happen in other industries as well, sometimes when there...