TtaaPosterBigPicture
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(Poster from OT2001 session ToTrainAnArchitect)
See the big picture
- Domain knowledge
- Acquire through experience as developer
- Understand failures
- Learn to fly/paragliding
- Higher level of abstraction
- Target practice
- Hitting the mark
- Orienteering
- Finding the route to where you want to go
- Rock-climbing
- Delegation, trust
- Team coaching (e.g. football)
- Build skills in others, motivate
- Teamwork
Annotations
Question - Target practice - how does this help? Answer - focus
Rock-climbing - this is about team building - but also strategy
Commentary
The 'Target Practice' thing is interesting. I'd like to tie this in with system simulation and make both facets of a more general activity, which we might call 'play' - dedicating attention to limited tasks with self-imposed constraints and a tractable set of materials in pursuit of an abstract goal (not even that - pure exploratory play, to develop a sense of the possibilities of the materials at hand, is important). All sorts of sports, games, simulations, role-plays fall into this category: the benefit to the (developing) architect is likely to be in exposure to large numbers of systems, representations, consequences of actions.