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Learn Your Way to AWESOME.

How do we turn our company into an AWESOME company? Our projects get crushed over and over again by bad decisions caused by relentless business pressure, a lack of visibility, and huge communication problems.

Fixing our software problems isn't an engineering problem, it's an organizational problem. It means the people of the business world and the engineering world need to learn how to communicate, learn together, and work together to optimize the whole.

So how do we get from Point A to Point AWESOME? We learn.

Idea Flow Learning Framework is a data-driven improvement framework specifically designed to get managers and developers all pulling the same direction by combining the power of Idea Flow with the power of science. By visualizing our pain, we create a data-driven feedback loop for systematically improving productivity on our software projects.

In this talk we'll cover:

  • A quick summary of how to measure the friction in a developer's “Idea Flow”
  • The scientific method and how we can use science to support data-driven software mastery
  • An overview of Idea Flow Learning Framework from bottom to top (from the weeds of development to the investment level of the company)

Learn how to measure the pain across the organization, run experiments to learn what works, and distill your knowledge into patterns and principles. If you want to start learning and improving faster than ever before, you won't want to miss this talk.


Arty Starr

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.

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