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emergence [2021/05/10 10:29]
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emergence [2021/05/11 13:43] (current)
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| ===== Emergent Learning ===== | ===== Emergent Learning ===== |
| | You may have detected that //execution// of the above discussions is a time-consuming endeavour! This is exactly correct; and we can lean-into this time and use it to our advantage. |
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| | Our industry, specifically software technology, has become fixated on **right now**. Agile process is debunked as "too flexible" -- we want **all the design**... //now!// Testing is deferred (and forgotten!) because we want **all the results** ... //now!// This becomes especially clear in application management, when a BusinessOwner turns to micromanagement as the only tool that seems useful in attempting to control a process and effort (MONEY$$) that they do not understand. Upon examination, we want to enable that BusinessOwner to have a recurring opportunity to "guide the ship" of development, helping the development and design team respond to business opportunities and challenges as they arise. The critical theme here is that **time goes by**. Business opportunities and challenges are unkown. They come about "at a time". We cannot predict them and must take them in turn. |
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| | We humans also do another important task "over time"... LEARNING. We don't learn //all the things// **immediately**. We spend //years// learning our trade, learning languages, learning about each others as acquaintances, friends, partners. We also //learn about software//. The BusinessOwner learns about how the software we're building interoperates with the business process. We developers learn how the software is used (in unpredictable ways!!). We encourage the BusinessOwner take //time to learn//, leaving space in the planning and design process to **learn as we go**. |
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| | Similarily, in refactoring our code, we need to give //time to learn//. Small refactorings don't necessarily take days to contemplate and review. We //do// need to give ourselves time to reflect on these small refactorings and //learn// the larger themes and modules that are. ... wait for it... **EMERGING** from the previous work. |
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| | Emergence comes from learning. They are a form of each other. Emergence begets learning. Learning begets Emergence. |
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