Working With the Garage Door Up
Letting Others Take a Look Before You’re Ready
This talk is about working in the open in your day-to-day in a development team. Sharing early - whether it’s a rough idea, a half-written doc, or a messy prototype - can lead to fast feedback from people you might not expect, useful conversations, and even collaborators. We know the value of sharing early versions of products with customers to get feedback: we should bring that same spirit to our day-to-day technical work, too.
Have you ever crafted a detailed answer to a teammate's question and then buried it in your chat history? Or kept some half-baked solution thoughts to yourself only to discover that someone else has spent ages getting to the same result? We’ll look at how to make your work-in-progress visible to others without causing confusion, and why it’s worth the risk of looking stupid!
Andy Normington
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Focusrite
I work with embedded software on Focusrite and Novation products, and lead our team's approach to developer tooling. Coming from a background in music and audio and having started my career more focused on electronics, I enjoy learning about the way the systems we develop work in the real world - it's always a little different to what I expect! I'm always on the lookout for ways to do things a little better than last time, which at work drives my interest in teams and tools, and at home drives my ever-increasing stash of DIY tools and gadgets.