Central Iowa Software Symposium
August 5 - 7, 2016
Learn Your Way to AWESOME.
Sunday - Aug 7 9:00 AM CDT - POLK
How do we know if our improvements are actually making things better? If we refactor the code, did we make it better? If we skip the tests, are we making things worse? What does better really mean, anyway?
Once we start tracking metrics on the pain we experience during development, we've got a data-driven feedback loop to learn what actually works! Objective data enables us to do something we've never been able to do before in our industry: science.
The “Continuous Acceleration Toolkit” includes new metrics, new tools, and new science-based learning processes, designed to accelerate you and your team to a whole new level of productivity.
In this talk, we'll discuss the three parts of the Continuous Acceleration Toolkit (OSS Tools and Demo for 2/1/2017 release):
- Metrics - What should we measure?
- Decision Principles - What should we optimize for?
- Science - How can we run experiments and accelerate productivity?
If you want to start learning and improving faster than ever, you won't want to miss this talk.
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.