Arty Starr
Author of Idea Flow, Founder, FlowInsight
Arty Starr is a recognized Flow Experience expert, researcher, speaker and thought leader, and author of Idea Flow, how to measure the friction in software development. Arty's PhD research is developing a theory of momentum in software development, and she is creator of the FLOWS platform designed to help developers thrive and find joy through more time in the flow state. The company she founded, FlowInsight, is on a mission to bring back joy to our everyday work.Arty is also a 2D/3D animator and artist, and has spent the last couple years building 3D apps in AR. She loves to share about her experiences with these technologies.
Presentations
How to Measure "Friction" in Software Development
9:00 AM MDT
In this session, we’ll focus on a key paradigm shift on what to measure — rather than measuring the code itself, you’ll learn a technique for measuring the developers’ experience with the code, and how to build explicit risk models for project decision-making.
Since the dawn of software development, we've struggled with a huge disconnect between the management world and the engineering world. We try to explain our problems in terms of “technical debt”, but somehow the message seems to get lost in translation, and we drive our projects into the ground, over and over again.
What if we could detect the earliest indicators of a project going off the rails, and had data to convince management to take action? What if we could bridge this communication gap once and for all?
In this session, we’ll focus on a key paradigm shift on what to measure — rather than measuring the code itself, you’ll learn a technique for measuring the developers’ experience with the code, and how to build explicit risk models for project decision-making.