Fail Better: Design Smart Mistakes and Succeed Sooner

CHAPTER 4

Launch Your Project

The day will come. Your project will hit a snag. Panic-inducing deadlines will telescope. Priorities will shift under your feet. Surprises will materialize. Unfortunately, no amount of preparation can prevent the unforeseen crisis. And in fact, too much advance planning is as foolish as too little, given changing environments and unknown factors.

But that’s not to say that preparation is useless. Kicking off your project with the right kind of forethought enables your team to navigate unexpected complications more effectively and to make the most of happenstance discoveries along the way. What if your team could rise above obstacles, even benefit from them, by reaping the new information and ideas that each challenge ...