http://tore.vestues.no/2009/05/02/understand-dont-just-follow/ On a quest for the silver bullet.. Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:43:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://tore.vestues.no/2009/05/02/understand-dont-just-follow/comment-page-1/#comment-306 Kristian Mon, 18 May 2009 13:34:50 +0000 http://tore.vestues.no/2009/05/02/understand-dont-just-follow/#comment-306 I would like to recommend you try reading one of the seminal works on organizational learning, “Situated Learning”, by Lave & Wenger. Although this is not a book dealing specifically with programming, it might offer a more fundamental appreciation of why people do not understand the same thing although they appear to have access to the same information. Why is your “truth” not someone else’s truth? While a discussion on what constitutes sound program development is a legitimate question in one context, the picture tends to blur as you cross the borders between communities of practice that abide by different quality criteria. The multidimensional implications of cross disciplinary development processes are still little understood. I would like to recommend you try reading one of the seminal works on organizational learning, “Situated Learning”, by Lave & Wenger. Although this is not a book dealing specifically with programming, it might offer a more fundamental appreciation of why people do not understand the same thing although they appear to have access to the same information. Why is your “truth” not someone else’s truth? While a discussion on what constitutes sound program development is a legitimate question in one context, the picture tends to blur as you cross the borders between communities of practice that abide by different quality criteria. The multidimensional implications of cross disciplinary development processes are still little understood.

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