Dave West running a Workshop on Mastery at XTC on 19th Feb

[Steve Tooke]

Contemporary and future demands on our profession—ultra–large in scale, complex in nature, and “wicked" in character—mandate new perspectives, perhaps a new profession, and certainly an enhanced notion of professionalism: Mastery in the classical sense exemplified by Leonardo da Vinci.

 

Dave will lead a series of focussed discussions, setting each one up with a short talk about the concept and issues

 

Discussion topics

• “Climate change”: the challenge of software systems characterized by decentralization; inherently conflicting, unknowable, and diverse requirements; continuous evolution and deployment; heterogeneous, inconsistent, and changing elements; erosion of the people/system boundary; normal failures, and continuous evolution in place.

• Ars Magna (the Great Art): definition and purpose. The outline of a new discipline/profession.

• Keeping the baby and tossing the bathwater—what must be retained from the past sixty years of computer science and software engineering.

• Mastery: definition, competencies, skills, experiences. The concept of a “modern polymath”.

• Nurturing mastery: including past and present attempts, ideas for moving forward.

• In academia (the New Mexico Highlands University experience, good, bad, and ugly)

• In a community of professionals

• As individuals

For more details and to sign up, please visit: https://xpday-london.editme.com/XTC20130219

Steve

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