Feedback Loops vs Ad Hoc Development
Developers should learn and use feedback loops to enable rapid iteration, reduce errors, and align development with user needs and business goals meets developers might use ad hoc development in emergency situations, such as fixing critical bugs under tight deadlines, prototyping ideas rapidly, or handling one-off tasks that don't justify a full development cycle. Here's our take.
Feedback Loops
Developers should learn and use feedback loops to enable rapid iteration, reduce errors, and align development with user needs and business goals
Feedback Loops
Nice PickDevelopers should learn and use feedback loops to enable rapid iteration, reduce errors, and align development with user needs and business goals
Pros
- +Specific use cases include implementing continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for automated testing and deployment, conducting user testing and A/B experiments to refine features, and using monitoring tools to detect and fix performance issues in production systems
- +Related to: agile-methodology, devops
Cons
- -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case
Ad Hoc Development
Developers might use ad hoc development in emergency situations, such as fixing critical bugs under tight deadlines, prototyping ideas rapidly, or handling one-off tasks that don't justify a full development cycle
Pros
- +It's useful for quick problem-solving in environments like startups, hackathons, or when dealing with legacy systems where formal processes are impractical
- +Related to: rapid-prototyping, debugging
Cons
- -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case
The Verdict
Use Feedback Loops if: You want specific use cases include implementing continuous integration/continuous deployment (ci/cd) pipelines for automated testing and deployment, conducting user testing and a/b experiments to refine features, and using monitoring tools to detect and fix performance issues in production systems and can live with specific tradeoffs depend on your use case.
Use Ad Hoc Development if: You prioritize it's useful for quick problem-solving in environments like startups, hackathons, or when dealing with legacy systems where formal processes are impractical over what Feedback Loops offers.
Developers should learn and use feedback loops to enable rapid iteration, reduce errors, and align development with user needs and business goals
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