Perfection & Feedback Loops or: why worse is better

Fri, August 26, 9:30am – 10:00am

First Name:  Marcus
Last Name:  Denker
Email where you can always be reached:  marcus.denker@inria.fr
Title:  Why is worse better? or: The Power of Feedback Loops.
Type: Talk

Abstract:  

Did you ever wonder why in-complete, bad solutions are successful while
that "perfect" project (which will be finsihed very soon now!) never had any impact?

In this talk I will discuss the power and properties of feedback loops and
how they relate to growth and success of software projects.

In a way this talk can be seen Part II (or an iteration?) of the 
"Nomads do not build Cathedrals” talk held at ESUG 2014.

Bio:

Marcus Denker is a permanent researcher (CR1, with tenure) at INRIA Lille - Nord Europe and co-founder of 2Denker GmbH. Before, he was a postdoc at the
PLEIAD lab/DCC University of Chile and the Software Composition Group, University of Bern. His research focuses on reflection and meta-programming for
dynamic languages. He is an active participant in the Squeak and Pharo open source communities for many years. Marcus Denker received a PhD in Computer
Science from the University of Bern/Switzerland in 2008 and a Dipl.-Inform. (MSc) from the University of Karlsruhe/Germany in 2004. He is a member of ACM,
GI and a board-member of ESUG.

Slides: 
	SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/esug/perfection-feedback-loops-or-why-worse-is-better
	PDF: http://www.esug.org/data/ESUG2016/05-Friday/0930-1000%20feedback%20loops/FeedbackLoops.pdf
	PDF with Annotations: http://www.esug.org/data/ESUG2016/05-Friday/0930-1000%20feedback%20loops/FeedbackLoopsAnnotated.pdf
	Video: https://youtu.be/LRFLdWG24Mk