Red Squirrel Reflections
Dave Hoover explores the psychology of software development
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Red Squirrel Reflections
Dave Hoover explores the psychology of software development
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Fri, 09 Sep 2005Thursday Focus Group at PLoP 2005 It turns out we're going to have two opportunities at PLoP 2005 to run focus groups on the apprenticeship patterns. Last night was the first one and we had the dozen or so attendees focus on Be The Worst. As usual, there were no shortage of opinions, which is always encouraging to me. We received suggestions to change the name of the pattern to something more positive (The Lion's Tail being our favorite) alongside feedback to keep the name as is. There were discussions of the dangers of being the worst in a company that fires the bottom performers and the impact of being the worst on your confidence. The feedback helped me bring out the relationships and dependencies that this pattern has on other apprenticeship patterns like Unleash Your Enthusiasm, Find Mentors, and Retreat Into Competence, along with patterns from other languages like Expert In Earshot. I need to make these relationships explicit in the pattern. Tonight we're going to have a longer focus group session in order to focus on one ore more collections of patterns. We're wondering whether Expose Your Ignorance and Confront Your Ignorance can be renamed into something more positive and combined into one. We don't think The Long Road and Craft Over Art are patterns and we're wondering how to fit them into a pattern language. After last night's group, I'm no longer nervous. I'm excited for tonight's discussions. |
