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Sometimes experience can even be harmful. Suppose an individual or a team encountered one situation, and worked very hard to explore, figure out a viable "attac
by shoo 4y ago
Sometimes experience can even be harmful. Suppose an individual or a team encountered one situation, and worked very hard to explore, figure out a viable "attack" to solve it, perhaps after a number of failures. Now they have experience. Suppose they're hired to help another project which is in a similar situation -- perhaps instead of repeating what they did the first time, instead of exploring they jump straight to applying the solution that worked before. If the situation is similar but not enough for the same solution to work, then maybe the outcome is going to be worse than if inexperienced folk with reasonable problem solving skills were thrown at it.
- Juliate 4y agoDefinitely. But we are all to be « haunted » by our own experience if we are to live, and to have to know how/when not to take it into account (which in itself is some form of experience too).
- sanitycheck 4y agoIn the universe I inhabit the opposite happens. For any number of consecutive similar problems teams will pick a different approach/technology each time, because they "already did that" and the needs of the project/business are secondary to their desire for novelty.
- bstpierre 4y agoIt’s not always driven by a desire for novelty. In my experience it’s just as often driven by some amount of reflection and desire to improve on what came before. I think there’s a lot of middle ground between chasing shiny new things and change that corrects systemic shortcomings of previous approaches.