Failing Fast versus Right First Time

Ian Ritchey is a former Group Chief Engineer at Rolls-Royce and is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

In this episode Ian shares his insights relating to leading New Product Development programmes from his long and distinguished career. 

In a broad-ranging discussion we explore the importance of context when considering topics such as Failing Fast vs Right First Time, Agile vs Waterfall programme management and the importance of retiring risk as early as possible in a programme.