Linda Rising
Independent Consultant
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Linda Rising is an independent consultant.
She 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, A Pattern Almanac 2000, and
Design Patterns in Communications Software. She has a number of publications including: "The Scrum Software
Development Process for Small Teams," in the July-August 2001 issue of
IEEE Software and "Agile Meetings," in the July/August 2002 issue of
STQE. She has presented a number of tutorials and workshops at OOPSLA and
other conferences. She is currently co-authoring two books. One with Mary Lynns to appear
in 2002: Fear Less: and other patterns for introducing patterns (or any
new idea) into organizations and a second with Caroline King, Daniel
May, and Steve Sanchez: Patterns for Building a Beautiful Company.
www.lindarising.org
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Using Patterns to Improve Process Improvement
Wednesday 10:15 - 11:00 (Tutorial Room)
Using Patterns to Improve Process Improvement
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 help us.
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.
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Tutorial, Friday Morning, half day Introducing Patterns (or Any New Idea) Into Organizations
Many people who attend JAOO or other conferences find new
ideas that they wish to take back to their organizations, but then
struggle to make something happen. This tutorial will help participants
understand what successful change agents have learned while attempting to
introduce new ideas into their organizations. The lessons learned have
been documented in a growing pattern language titled Introducing Patterns
(or any new idea) into Organizations. This session will present the
problems and solutions documented in this language and allow participants
to discuss and discover answers to the challenges they have encountered
while introducing new ideas into their organizations.
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