Jared Wooten

Technical Coach | Extreme Programmer

  • About
  • Blog
  • Curriculum Vitae

Fail Faster—Iterate Faster

March 20, 2020 by Jared Wooten

The spirit of the phrase, "Fail faster" is simple: In order to find success, you need to get through the necessary failures quickly. Getting stuck on a failure, or giving up after a failure means you've stopped actively failing, which means you can't ever hope to succeed.

Read More
March 20, 2020 /Jared Wooten
agile, values, principles, extreme programming, scrum, iterations, failure, continuous improvement, continuous learning
Comment

The Myth of the Accelerated Track

March 10, 2020 by Jared Wooten

Knowing that empirically we can, in fact, increase our intelligence is a crucial first step to self-improvement. If you see a direction to go and believe there is ground you can cover to get there, you can target your weak areas with practice and feedback and make progress.

Read More
March 10, 2020 /Jared Wooten
growth mindset, continuous learning, intelligence, agileteam
Comment

Collective Learning

March 09, 2020 by Jared Wooten

In those fleeting moments where engineers sit together to solve a problem collectively, we build trust, share wisdom, and debate ideas until they are better than any one of us could have come up with on our own.

Read More
March 09, 2020 /Jared Wooten
continuous learning, continuous improvement, incentive alignment, yoda, AgileTeam
Comment