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Janelle Klein

CTO, New Iron

Janelle has been working with New Iron for the last 10 years, as a developer, consultant, and now as CTO. She's bootstrapping Open Mastery this year, an industry peer learning network focused on conquering the biggest challenges in the software industry. Her development background is specialized in data-intensive analytic systems from financial core processors to factory automation, supply chain optimization and statistical process control (SPC). Her consulting work has focused on Continuous Delivery infrastructure, database automation, test automation strategies, and helping companies identify and solve their biggest problems.

Janelle is author of the book, Idea Flow: How to Measure the PAIN in Software Development (leanpub.com/ideaflow), a modern strategy for systematically optimizing software productivity with a data-driven feedback loop.

As a technical mentor, Janelle focuses on teaching thinking and decision-making skills instead of teaching best practices. Her philosophy is that the key to good development skills is learning how to ask the right questions. She is dedicated to supporting grassroots community mentorship and is the founder of Software Mastery Circle, and a NFJS Tour Speaker.

Latest from Janelle Klein

What if we could measure the indirect costs of problems building up on a software project? What if we could measure collaboration pain, troubleshooting pain, and the chaos from things going wrong? In software development, the indirect costs of troubleshooting, learning, and rework can easily exceed 50 percent of the team's development capacity. After all the...