Context: How to think about feedback among a team of engineers, including the engineering manager, product owner, project lead.

• Feedback is a gift
• Positive feedback is a very constructive way to encourage behavior.
• Negative feedback essentially discourages behavior, but may provoke in general a stance of defensiveness
• Therefore: Try to balance the positive and the negative elements of a single feedback "session"
• Balance both the quantity, but also the quality: if negative feedback is very specific, then the positive parts should also be very specific.