Getting feedback from the whole team from day 1

Most teams have a collaboration problem that they don't even realize. Their project managers, developers, testers, and stake holders are walled off from each other for big sections of every project and often every sprint. Most teams work in Pull Requests while they work on their various features but seeing the work trapped in those pull requests requires a huge amount of technical knowledge, not to mention time.

This means that each new feature is walled off where no-one can see it until it has received a technical review and been merged so that it can be deployed to some staging environment for testing and review. There is no easy way for developers to ask for in-progress feedback, nowhere to for project managers to direct clients to ask "is this what you mean?", and nowhere for the project leads to easily review without spending time updating and testing things up on their own laptops.

New tools have emerged that enable whole new inclusive workflows that allow every team member to see every change even while those changes are in progress. This means that developers are less inclined to step on each others toes, it makes it much easier to make sure that changes are vetted before they land in development, and that your main development branch is always ready for deployment.

In this non-technical session we'll talk about the new workflows that are possible with the advent tools like Probo.CI, Tugboat.QA, and Runnable. These service enable a whole new level of collaboration and help to tear down the walls between the technical and non-technical members of our teams.