~/talk

For Agile to work you need to get measurable feedback

Talkat Agile India 2022 · 2022-09-22..09-24· [engineering-leadership]
name:Tom Gilb
links:none on file
slides:none on file

Argues that iterations by themselves are insufficient and teams must gather measurable feedback (advice traced back to a 1976 book) and use it to steer results not just produce code. Gives a concrete example of improving security from 50 to 90 percent by incremental targets and criticizes current practice for lacking such metrics. Cites the Standish analysis of 50 000 projects showing agile fails only slightly less than waterfall, so claimed benefit is mostly unrealized.

AI-written summary · about

~/search
type to search 6,249 conferences, 138,987 speakers and 185,172 talks
~/help
cmdctrl k
search every conference, speaker and series
/
focus the filter search
h
home
c
conferences
s
speakers
e
series
t
light / dark — the status bar button does the same
?
this help
esc
close this, then clear every filter — or just the search, while you are typing in it

Ignored while you are typing. Pages without a filter rail have no search to focus.