Key-2 :  The Essence of Providing Feedback
Tuesday, 1:00pm - 2:00pm

 
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How effective is the feedback you provide to others? How valuable do you tend to find feedback that you receive? Do you know what your native critique style is? Join Dawn Haynes and Scott Barber for this interactive and amusing keynote session to find out.

Through a combination of role play and audience involvement, you will explore the attributes of your own style of critique, the relative effectiveness of common critique styles across several dimensions, and whether or not you have a knack for critiquing feedback. Bring your sense of humor, an open mind, and a willingness to participate in sharing a little well-natured, bi-directional feedback with your conference peers to this session, and leave with some new insights into giving and receiving feedback.

Scott Barber

CTO, PerfTestPlus, Inc.

Scott Barber is the Chief Technologist of PerfTestPlus, Co-Founder of the Workshop on Performance and Reliability, and co-author of Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications, Beautiful Testing, and Reducing the Cost of Testing (July 2011). Scott thinks of himself as a tester and trainer of testers who has a passion for software system performance.

Dawn Haynes

Consultant and Sr. Trainer, PerfTestPlus, Inc.

Dawn Haynes is a Senior Trainer and Consultant for PerfTestPlus, and Secretary of the Association for Software Testing. A highly regarded trainer of software testers, she blends experience and humor to provide testers of all levels with tools and techniques to help them generate new approaches to common and complex software testing problems.  In addition to training, Dawn is particularly passionate about improving the state of performance testing across the industry.  She has more than 20 years of experience supporting, administering, developing and testing software and hardware systems, from small business operations to large corporate enterprises.  Dawn holds a BSBA in MIS with a minor in programming from Northeastern University.