Fail Fast Nights. How we adapted a popular meetup series to promote a no-blame...
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Adaptation of the global Fail Fast Nights format at Ocado starts in November 2017 as a replacement tech talk, runs 10 editions with dozens of real postmortem stories, and routinely books 4–6 speakers delivering 5–10 minute slots. Organizing uses Slack invites, a slide template that only shows name/topic, recorded streams posted next day, and an ordering trick to order stories by impact. Outcomes: domesticates mistakes, complements formal postmortems, and yields a committee that now runs local editions.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction and origin
- 3:56What are Fail Fast Nights
- 6:49Why failures are engaging
- 8:14How event looks from audience
- 10:25Behind the scenes of organizing
- 11:46Finding and convincing speakers
- 14:36Preparing speakers for success
- 16:23Secret ingredients for great events
- 19:57Adapting to your company
- 22:46Frequency and natural rhythm
- 23:52Local vs remote editions
- 27:07Convincing your company
- 29:34Benefits for company and organizer
- 32:05Post-mortems vs Fail Fast Nights
- 34:13Next steps and resources
- 42:12Q&A session begins
- 44:21Q&A on failure types and culture
- 50:46Volunteer stories and closing
