Even a cycle had to go through cycles of iteration before become the cycle it is right now.
Recently, I have been reading the “Personal MBA” By Josh Kaufman. One of the topics I read recently was the “Iteration Cycle”. The iteration cycle is a line of procedures that help you improve. Sometimes we read or hear about people going from poor to rich, (Rags To Riches) but I haven’t heard or read of a story where the person becomes rich without doing nothing. This is where the procedures of the Iteration Cycle come in. So what are these procedures? Come find out.
- What is an iteration cycle?
No one of this world can get anything right on their first try. Take the Mona Lisa for example. Under the great success lies huge amounts of iterations. Not only did the artist of Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci) have to perfect his art skills but also his paintings. I don’t think he just woke up one day and said “Today, I’ll make a painting which will be told of all over the world!” No, he would have rather started slowly and made his way up ahead.
- The iteration cycle
Here is the skeletal system of the Iteration Cycle. You can remember the procedures using a mnemonic ‘WIGWAM”. WIGWAM stands for:
W – Watch
I – Ideate
G – Guess
W – What?
A – Act
M – Measure
So what do each of them mean?
- Watch:
Experiment and see what works and what doesn’t. - Ideate:
Find out what you could improve and evaluate your options. - Guess:
Now that you have your options laid before you, try thinking upon your options and try finding something that will make the biggest impact. - What?:
Be sure about the option your going to pick. (This itself might take iteration but just in thinking haha.) - Act:
Now that you have decided, act! Make your decision come true! - Measure:
Did your decision make the change you expected? Was the change even good or was it bad?
This is the iteration cycle. Let’s say that the decision you made was a good one. Then you start the iteration process all over again. The more you do it, the better you get. If the decision you made was pretty bad then you revert or fix your mistake and try again. The more you do it, the less your mistakes. In the same way that an airplane must take off slowly before it can fly smoothly, the iterative process must also take off slowly before it can continue smoothly.
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