Central Ohio Software Symposium
Apr 29 - May 1, 2016
Let's Make the PAIN Visible!
Friday - Apr 29 1:15 PM EDT - WORTHINGTON
We've got some seriously big problems in our industry. Under constant business pressure, our organization's drive one project after another into the ground. Once the chaos and fire-fighting finally gets out of control, we rewrite our software… again. How long are we going to wait for somebody else to solve this problem?!
It's about time we took responsibility. OpenDX is a strategy to kick this problem's ass. How? By measuring the pain, and putting the ridiculous costs and risks on center stage for everyone to see, then working together to figure it out.
In this talk, we'll get into the weeds of #OpenDX, a specification for data collection in software development for universally measuring the “pain” or “friction” in developer experience.
- What type of tools do we use?
- What type of analysis can we do?
- What type of patterns can we see?
Visibility changes everything. Once we can measure the pain, explain the costs and risks, and get managers and developers all pulling the same direction, suddenly we can start optimizing our organization's with a data-driven feedback loop.
OpenDX is about making healthy software projects the new norm in our industry. Status quo – You better watch out.
Arty Starr
Developer Experience Researcher, University of Victoria
About Arty Starr
Arty Starr has been a software engineer for 20+ years and is a researcher and pioneer of new theories of the developer's cognitive experience that help us recognize how developers' experiences are changing with AI. Her theories of developer momentum and troubleshooting help us see software development through an ecological lens, recognizing it as a living activity in motion and the living capacities of care and cognition that support this motion. Her aim is to bring heart, human-centric values, and agency to the craft of software development so we can build toward the type of world we want to live in. With richer perception and by recognizing what matters, we can light a path to a future of thriving habitats where humans and AI can collaborate well and thrive together.
Arty is the author of Idea Flow, a speaker, thought leader, and artist who loves mixing ideas across disciplines into a fusion of creativity to help make the world a better place through her projects.