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...