From the course: Learning Data Science: Using Agile Methodology
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- In a 1921 interview, Thomas Edison said that his assistant was discouraged by their failed experiments. The famous inventor was cheery and assured them that they hadn't failed. They were always learning something new. Once they learned something, they were free to try it a different way. Today we know Thomas Edison was right because of his many successes. A few of them are still in use today. There were also a few experiments that were lost to history. Not many people still play on their concrete piano. We have the benefit of looking at this legacy through a string of successes. We don't see the failed experiments that took up most of his time. If you were in Edison's lab, it might be difficult to imagine his successes. In fact, it might not look like Edison would ever be successful, because there were many more failures than successes. If Edison were using modern project management, he would've run into a couple of challenges. How would he define a success? He couldn't look for the…
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