Michael Feathers

Director at R7K Research & Conveyance

Michael Feathers is the founder and Director of R7K Research & Conveyance, a company specializing in software and organization design.

Prior to forming R7K, Michael was the Chief Scientist of Obtiva and a consultant with Object Mentor International.

Over the years, Michael has spent a great deal of time helping teams after design over time in code bases.

Michael Feathers is the author of the well-known book Working Effectively with Legacy Code.

Error Elimination as a Design Driver

Mar 01, 2018

As developers we spend a lot of time dealing with error cases. We write code to handle them or leverage our type systems prevent them. These are fine strategies but they don’t cut to the core question – why do the error cases exist at all? Can we get rid of them? In this keynote, Michael Feathers will explore the idea that error cases are often missed design opportunities.