Meredith is a 20+ year technology veteran. She works in fintech leadership on current portfolio management focusing on AI and cloud native. Meredith is passionate about self-sovereignty, high-performing/high EQ teams, and rethinking development practices. Her handles are hackerm0m on all the social networks and thehackerm0m on twitch. Most recently, she spoke at Visions2030 and IJAD Digital Space on humanistic blockchain implementations.

Title of presentation: What is Quality? Traditional Agile Ideas and A New Embodied Approach.

One of the pillars of my team is quality. Quality is usually considered something a product has. A product either is or has high quality or does not. However, software is never finished!

My experience of quality has changed over my career. What if we think of quality as the feeling we experience when we build software and not a metric to measure, like test coverage, or a goal?

This workshop is for agile practitioners, technology leaders, product owners, scrum masters, and developers. We will begin with a case study of my embodied experience of building a piece of software and how that correlated to traditional quality metrics. Then we will share our own experience of what writing software feels like,  from an embodied perspective.  Prompts include, deployment to production, code review, story grooming, but this is intended to be open to what the participants want to discuss.  What is the feeling quality when we engage in these activities?  Time permitting, we can discuss how we can begin to incorporate this new notion of quality into traditional agile practices.

The quality of the experience of building a software product informs the quality of whatever we are building.