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What does fail fast even mean?

How did mature teams I worked with implement this foundational Agile practice?

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Vibhor Chandel
Dec 04, 2025
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Walk into any agile retrospective, and you’ll hear it:

“We need to fail fast.”

It’s in the team charter. It’s on the motivational posters.

But when something actually fails, the team treats it like a setback.

“Fail fast” has become an Agile gospel, repeated so often that it has practically lost its meaning.

But not for everyone!

When you watch mature teams practice “Fail fast”, you realize what most teams are doing wrong. The gap between saying you want to fail fast and actually doing it isn’t as big a deal as some teams believe.

So how do mature teams crack this code?

Let’s find out.

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