Speaker

Linda Rising
Independent consultant

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
• IEEE Software, July-August 2001
• Agile Meetings
• STQE, July/August 2002
• The Role of Product Champion
• STQE, March 2003.

These and other articles are available on her web site: lindarising.org. She is a regular contributor to the DDC-I On-line Newsletter: ddci.com/news_latest_news_archive.shtml
She has presented a number of tutorials and workshops at JAOO, OOPSLA and other conferences.
She is currently co-authoring three books: Fear Less: and other patterns for introducing new ideas into organizations, with Mary Lynn Manns, to appear Fall 2003, a second with Caroline King, Daniel May, and Steve Sanchez: Patterns for Building a Beautiful Company, and a third with Mary Lynn Manns, Patterns for Retrospectives.

Presentation: "Patterns for building a beautiful company"

Wednesday 13:00 - 13:45 Protected Room

Many of us dream of working in companies where we feel alive, where work is something we look forward to each day, where we feel that we're part of something bigger. A lot of us may have heard of such companies; some of us may have even worked in such companies. It turns out that there are many underlying common aspects to the way these companies are born, grow and flourish. Aspects and principles that we can distil, that we can consciously use and apply in growing our own companies. These aspects and principles are patterns of the beautiful company.

Patterns for building a beautiful company - (slides)

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Tutorial: "Retrospectives and Patterns"
Thursday 09:00 - 16:00
This tutorial presents two complementary techniques to understanding and improving your organization.

Retrospectives and patterns have become popular techniques on their own. Retrospectives are an approach to making sense of key events in your organization's history, drawing out important lessons and perspectives, and generating common understanding among people in the organization. Organizational patterns describe solutions to recurring classes of problems in the organizaton, describing the forces and decisions to be made when choosing/applying the solution. Individually, both approaches are powerful but have their limitations. This tutorial presents an approach that combines the use of retrospectives and patterns to help your organization learn from the past and to drive change for the future.

Part I. Retrospectives
Introduction: What's a retrospective?
Exercise. What can be learned? Lead-in to Part II.

Part II. Pattern mining
Introduction: What's a pattern (for writers)? Pattern write as a group based on retrospective data from Part I.
Do writers workshops in small groups.