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Build Team Resilience: Shorten Feedback Loops (Part 2)

Johanna Rothman

This part is about shortening feedback loops. Brief description of the problem at a recent client: Person A checked in code that broke an “unrelated” part of the system. I'll call this checking in code in Email that broke Search. They had one piece of feedback: the checkin broke “unrelated” code.

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7 Common Types of Software Testing

Usersnap

Most developers have no clue about how testing is actually done, and how valuable the understanding of software testing basics can be for developers who really want to excel in their careers. I owe a large amount of the success I have had in my career as a software developer to my background in testing.

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How WIP Insights Allow Us to Revisit Brooks’ Law About Adding People to a Team

Johanna Rothman

” It depends on how your lifecycle manages feedback loops and learning, how collaborative the team is, and how much WIP the team has. Each Lifecycle Manages Feedback Loops Differently Brooks wrote the original version of The Mythical Man-Month in 1975, based on the 1960s IBM 360 project. .”

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Why We Continue Our Quest for Silver Bullets

Johanna Rothman

For years, managers have been trying to find ways to make software product development faster and easier. Now, we have at least these: Low code environments so people can write their own code. That's because they don't have unplanned feedback loops as in the image on the left. It doesn't work that way!!)

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Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test before Investing in Ideas

The Product Coalition

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. Boston Consulting Group estimates that 70% of digital business transformation projects fail. The first version of Buffer is a good software example of a MVP. improve” feedback loop.

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Build Team Resilience Summary (Part 4)

Johanna Rothman

If you only have one tester, the team collaborates to test when that one tester is busy. Shorten Feedback Loops. Next, I suggested that the team find ways to shorten their feedback loops , in Part 2. I suggested that first, you see your feedback loops. (I Learn to Work in Multiple Locations.

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Writing Secret 2: Increase Writing Speed When You Separate Writing From Editing

Johanna Rothman

When I write down, I have the same creative feelings as when I used to write code or tests. I tend to code and test in two modes: Experimentation in problem-solving: Imagining a solution. Writing code and tests. This part requires fast feedback loops in my brain and with colleagues.