Creating a Culture of Experimentation: A Conversation with MongoDB’s Mark Porter and Accenture’s Michael Ljung | MongoDB Blog` To build innovative products, today's organizations need a culture of experimentation that allows people to rapidly test and discard ideas. Encouraging teams to experiment, rather than emphasizing fast failure or success, is key. Leaders should think about what they will learn from an experiment's failure and commit it to paper. Psychological safety, candor, context, and accountability are critical to enabling a mindset that seeks out experimentation. Empowerment through agile principles can also encourage teams to make decisions quickly and take calculated risks. By normalizing experiments that don't work as expected, organizations can find the best ideas and build products in response to changing business contexts.