Tightening your Feedback Loop

Jared Richardson, Technical Track

Software development is a series of feedback loops. Our customer tells us what they envision and we deliver. Then they tell how close we did, or occasionally did not, come to that vision of software nirvana. During development, we often work with a team of other software professionals where we're constantly breaking each other's compiles and features.

In all of these cases we're experiencing feedback loops. The longer we wait for the feedback, the less we learn from it. Since writing software is an expensive and risky undertaking, more frequent feedback is better than less frequent. In this session we're going explore several great techniques software teams are using for shortening their feedback loops and delighting their customers.

About the presenter

Jared Richardson is an author, speaker, and developer who lives in North Carolina. He works with teams to discover their ever present 'blind spots', and then tightens the right feedback loops to eliminate the problem. He started Agile RTP, now the largest Agile user group in the United States with nearly 700 members. His first book, Ship It! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects is a best seller in seven languages. He spends his time playing with his family and recently, rather by accident, became an urban chicken farmer. You can find him on the web at AgileArtisans.com