🔬 How to give effective feedback

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines feedback as:

the transmission of evaluative or corrective information about an action, event, or process to the original or controlling source.

In software development it’s important to give appropiated and constant feedback to the people that sorround us. There are two types of feedback:

There is no such thing as negative feedback. If we’re providing feedback in a good way, it should not be negative.

The steps to give any kind of feedback are the following:

This process of feedback should be a dialog. Both, the emissary and the receptor should be open to talk about every aspect of the action they are evaluating.

The feedback applied effectively can lead to great improvements inside a team and a company.