The FEAST/1 project was conceived in 1994 following formulation of the hypothesis that the software evolution process is a feedback system and must be treated as such to achieve major process improvement. The overall goals of the project were to:

provide objective evidence of the presence and impact of feedback and systems dynamics in the software process
demonstrate that they can be exploited for managing and improving industrial processes
produce justification for more substantial study of the feedback perspective and its implications

This paper gives the specific objectives that were identified for the project and describes work carried out, difficulties encountered and results achieved.