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Topic Summary

In the new economy, new process approaches are needed. We are seeing lightweight methodologies like eXtreme Programming and Scrum but are we forgetting that process improvement itself must be implemented iteratively?

How can we improve if we can't learn quickly? Documenting successes as patterns and learning as fast as we can from our mistakes will enable us to improve. There are many approaches to knowledge management and patterns is just one of those. Patterns do more than capture good design practices, they are also useful for documenting process and organizational strategies.

Speaker Information

Linda Rising has a Ph.D. from Arizona State University in the area of object-based design metrics. Her background includes university teaching experience as well as work in industry in the areas of telecommunications, avionics, and strategic weapons systems. She has been working with object technologies since 1983.

She is the editor of A Patterns Handbook: Techniques, Strategies and Applications, the editor of a special issue of IEEE Communications on Design Patterns in Communications Software, and the author of a chapter on Patterns Mining in the recent CRC Handbook of Object Technology. She has also published A Pattern Almanac 2000 and a collection of Design Patterns in Communications.

Linda has presented a number of tutorials and workshops at OOPSLA and other conferences. She was the conference chair for the first Southwestern patterns conference, ChiliPLoP, held in Wickenburg, AZ, March 1998.

Linda spent the past year in Denmark. Now she is back in Phoenix. She attended her first bootcamp with the McCarthy's last March 2001. Linda received a Ph.D from Arizona State University in the area of object-based design metrics, university professorship, and software related work in the areas of weapons systems, avionics, and telecommunications. She is actively and internationally involved with pattern-related efforts and presentations at software development conferences. Working for AG Communication Systems, Linda was a principal in proposing, developing, and implementing corporate efforts to leverage the benefits of applying software development patterns of all types.

She is currently working with Mary Lynn Manns, giving presentations and co-writing a book on Introducing Patterns(or any new technology) into an Organization.

Linda Rising's home page

Lightweight Processes Are "Hot"
Martin Fowler, The New Methodology

Why Scrum?
Linda Rising, The Scrum Software Development Process for Small Teams

More on Scrum
ControlChaos.com, home of Scrum!
Jeff Sutherland, SCRUM Hyperproductive Software Development Method

The Quality Without a Name
Dr. Nikos A. Salingaros, Some Notes on Christopher Alexander.
Sunlight Homes, A Pattern Language

Patterns describe succcess
Linda Rising article index

Project retrospectives
Norm Kerth, Project Retrospectives
David DeLano and Linda Rising, System Test Pattern Language

Firewalls (Manager role)
James O. Coplien, A Development Process Generative Pattern Language

Team per Task
Alistair Cockburn, Project Risk Reduction Patterns

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• Fourth Generation, Inc.
• Talent Software Services, Inc.
• West Group, a Thomson Company

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