Comments on: Monthly Wrap-up – December 2007 http://www.yuwantitwhen.com/blog/2008/01/23/monthly-wrap-up-december-2007/ Practical methods for successful software management. Thu, 06 May 2010 02:07:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: ActiveEngine Sensei http://www.yuwantitwhen.com/blog/2008/01/23/monthly-wrap-up-december-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-135 ActiveEngine Sensei Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:50:34 +0000 http://www.yuwantitwhen.com/blog/2008/01/23/monthly-wrap-up-december-2007/#comment-135 I think you're onto something when you say behavior needs to be addressed to harness team productivity. More efforts in training junior members of teams needs to be focused on analysis and communication. As a philosophy professor who once critiqued my written work said "If you made mistakes taking a math exam i can see you can't add. If you make mistakes in your grammar and sentence structures, what other evidence do I have that you can think?" If you can get someone who can frame a problem that the customer of business unit can immediately recognize as a correct solution in their terms you have a better chance at solution accuracy. This is hard, as many developers speak in different terms, and some are incomplete analogies that do not address issues at hand. Too many times I have heard things like "Oh, we'll handle that with a facade pattern" as they are not expending the mental effort to understand what other underlying issues need to be addressed. I think you’re onto something when you say behavior needs to be addressed to harness team productivity. More efforts in training junior members of teams needs to be focused on analysis and communication. As a philosophy professor who once critiqued my written work said “If you made mistakes taking a math exam i can see you can’t add. If you make mistakes in your grammar and sentence structures, what other evidence do I have that you can think?”

If you can get someone who can frame a problem that the customer of business unit can immediately recognize as a correct solution in their terms you have a better chance at solution accuracy. This is hard, as many developers speak in different terms, and some are incomplete analogies that do not address issues at hand. Too many times I have heard things like “Oh, we’ll handle that with a facade pattern” as they are not expending the mental effort to understand what other underlying issues need to be addressed.

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