Healthy Feedback

Human collaboration, like most things, improves with feedback. But it's not obvious how to make feedback effective. Anuja Karnik and Sumeet Gayathri Moghe pass on a bevy of tips for healthy feedback, based on the principle that both praise and criticism should be seen as positive. more…

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A guide to exchanging criticism or praise in teams

Peer-to-peer feedback is a powerful growth tool, and yet candid feedback is rare. We treat all feedback as positive — either to strengthen confidence or improve effectiveness. Based on this principle we can form several patterns for both giving and receiving feedback to help teams improve their interactions.

24 September 2026

At Thoughtworks, “cultivation”—helping each other grow—has been a big part of how we work. Our collaboration practices make software development a cognitive contact sport and create many opportunities to share feedback about how we think, problem-solve and interact with one another. In our experience, teams in which people share candid, timely, and instructive feedback with each other are also teams where people experience the most growth. Indeed, peer-to-peer feedback is one of the most powerful tools we’ve used to cultivate others and for our own growth.