On the Care and Feeding of Feedback Cycles
summary
Argues for slicing feedback latency by automating checks, pairing instead of Gerrit reviews, and moving tests down to the fastest level; a migration removes week‑long bottlenecks so changes go from weeks to days to hours, acceptance pipelines and Datadog monitoring surface staging spikes before production, and build breakers force immediate fixes; the acceptance test suite now runs in 10 minutes and teams log exploratory charters as zero‑point stories to fund focused risk discovery.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 0:03On the Care and Feeding of
- 3:05What's Feedback?
- 3:33What Do We Need Feedback On?
- 5:48Feedback Latency
- 6:47A Traditional Long Feedback Cycle and why no one does this anymore
- 9:11Latency, Speculation, and Risk
- 11:18Time Value of Information
- 11:49Eliminate Speculation Buildup
- 12:24Beware Fragile
- 14:26Different kinds of Feedback
- 22:38Tighten Feedback Loops
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