Data Driven Software Mastery - Janelle Klein - Midwest.io 2016
This talk was given at Midwest.io 2016.
What if we could measure the indirect costs of pain building up on a software project? What if we could measure the loss of productivity, the escalating costs and risks, and could steer our projects with a data-driven feedback loop?
By measuring the friction in "Idea Flow", the flow of ideas between the developer and the software, we can create a data-driven feedback loop for learning what works. Rather than making decisions based on anecdote and gut feel, we can start driving our improvement decisions with real data.
Data-Driven Software Mastery is about learning and improving faster than ever.
Find out how you can:
Identify the biggest causes of productivity loss on your software project
Avoid spending tons of time solving the wrong problems
Collaborate with other industry professionals in the art of data-driven software mastery
Idea Flow gives us a universal language for describing our experience, and sharing our knowledge of what works. With a feedback loop, we can even run experiments!
Idea Flow turns the development community into a scientific community.
About the speaker:
Janelle is a NFJS Tour Speaker, author of the book, Idea Flow: How to Measure the PAIN in Software Development (leanpub.com/ideaflow), and founder of Open Mastery (openmastery.org), an industry collaborative learning network focused on mastering the art of software development with a data-driven feedback loop.
She founded Open Mastery to rally the industry in working together, and learning together to break down the wall of ignorance between managers and developers that drives our software projects into the ground. By making the pain visible with Idea Flow, we have a universal definition of effective practice, a universal language for sharing our experiences, and an opportunity to learn together like never before. Open Mastery is about taking the industry to a whole new level of effectiveness by working together.
Aside from Open Mastery, Janelle has been working with New Iron for the last 10 years, as a developer, consultant, and now as CTO. Her development background is specialized in data-intensive analytic systems from financial core processors to factory automation, supply chain optimization and statistical process control (SPC). Her consulting work has focused on Continuous Delivery infrastructure, database automation, test automation strategies, and helping companies identify and solve their biggest problems.