Slow feedback is killing your productivity in more ways than you think.

As humans, feedback systems are at the very core of our existence. It tells us if we’re in pain, if we are hungry, if we are tired. Our software gives us feedback too. We write some code and something happens, the information we get back to us is that feedback.

As developers, we build feedback systems around our software to tell us everything is working as it should. From automated testing, production monitoring all the way down to compile errors or even that little red squiggly line that tells us we’ve made a typo.

Feedback is great at telling us that we have done something wrong, but we need to know quickly. And I mean quickly.

In this talk, I will explore why slow feedback is dangerous, how it kills your productivity, how it wastes your time and how it makes your life pretty miserable.

But it’s not all doom and gloom, I will also tell you what you can do to make it better. I will give you some tools and tricks you can use to help make your feedback so much smoother. Finally, I will urge you to be impatient in your work (with your feedback cycles, not your colleagues) because it will pay off for yourself and everyone around you.