The Imperial Japanese Navy and Borland Software made the same strategic mistake: testing hypotheses but ignoring negative results. Join your hosts, Squirrel and Jeffrey to discover what they missed and how you can make falsification work for you on this episode of Troubleshooting Agile.

Links:

- Shattered Sword: http://www.shatteredswordbook.com/

- Borland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland

- Bank-robbing story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJVHTQSvUIo

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About Your Hosts

Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick first met while working together at TIM group in 2013. A decade later, they remain united in their passion for growing organisations through better conversations.

Squirrel is an advisor, author, keynote speaker, coach, and consultant, helping companies of all sizes make huge, profitable improvements in their culture, skills, and processes.

You can find out more about his work here: https://douglassquirrel.com/index.html

Jeffrey is Vice President of Engineering at ION Analytics, Organiser at CITCON, the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference, author and speaker.

You can connect with him here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jfredrick/