The final part of the confluence of ideas about feedback was reencountering the new software start-up 15Five, a company that is trying to provide a way for companies to build in feedback into the fabric of the time-constrained world we live in. The company’s product grew out of the techniques that Yves Chouinard dreamed up to manage Patagonia, the sporting goods company. He asked his staff to take 15 minutes each week to write positive and negative feedback on their work, a report that could be read in 5 minutes. Hence, 15five. 15five streamlines this activity, providing forms with basic questions to elicit feedback, and messaging to ping people to do their reports, and to pass these from staff to managers, and for the managers to synthesize and to respond and circulate in various ways. This can include pulling feedback from specific people, looking for trends, and so on. This finds its way to the manager’s manager, and so on. I will be getting a demo and writing a longer review of 15five, but I wonder if what we know now about feedback and deliberate practice is explicitly incorporated, or if it’s simply an accommodation of the time-constrained world we inhabit. - pro.gigaom.com