pp. Rapidly and repeatedly prototyping or implementing new products and processes.
2016
Instead of just brainstorming, 2015 was all about trystorming — a fun way of saying that we tested new ideas even if those ideas hadn’t been completely vetted or perfected yet.
2015
It's not about brainstorming, it's about trystorming. Every idea is tried out — harvested, thought about, pulled through the PDSA cycle.
2012
Then, we began, a team of eight clinicians — docs, nurses, techs and housekeepers — to “trystorm”, a term connoting brainstorming activity combined with actual doing. …
On day two we jumped into trystorming with a vengeance.
On day two we jumped into trystorming with a vengeance.
1998 (earliest)
"We began 'trystorming,' which means we implemented the ideas, kept them if they worked and discarded them if they didn't," said Tew.
Trystorming is more or less the functional opposite of bikeshedding, which last year I defined as "Frequent, detailed discussions on a minor issue conducted while major issues are being ignored or postponed." In a bikeshedding culture, if someone comes up with an idea, it is discussed, analyzed, evaluated, debated, and chewed over before being put off "for further study." In a trystorming culture, that same idea would be immediately prototyped, modeled, simulated, mocked up, or implemented, examined to see what works and what doesn't, and the entire process repeated. The trystorming motto is "Fail early, fail fast, fail often."