Within the agile community, I’ve seen quite a few examples of folks doing a, how do I say it, Failure Bow. To be frank, I didn’t know what it was all about. Sure, I get the gist of it. But where does it come from? And what are folks trying to represent by doing it? I never quite knew the backstory.
I also discovered that there were also several forms of it. There was the in-person failure bow. For example, a speaker making a mistake in front of their audience would do it.
But I recently received some email from Scrum Alliance folks that had mistakes in them. The senders then did virtual failure bows via follow-up emails. I’ve even seen folks do it via #failurebow in the twitter (and other) streams.
It made me want to explore it a bit deeper. So, I did.