Luiz,

Teams work more effectively when members have personal perspectives on a
shared understanding of the system and the problems it addresses. When I
want to gauge a team's shared understanding, I ask members individually to
explain their system to me using four objects. If everyone comes up with
similar objects, they share a metaphor. Wildly divergent objects suggest the
team could benefit from working on shared understanding.

Sincerely yours,

Kent Beck
Three Rivers Institute

> -----Original Message-----
> From: extremeprogramming@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:extremeprogramming@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Luiz
> Esmiralha
> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 4:02 AM
> To: extremeprogramming@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [XP] Stupid questions: Would a "glossary"
> qualify as a system metaphor?
>
> On 2/21/06, yahoogroups@... <yahoogroups@...> wrote:
> >
> > That's basically it. I usually put it that the metaphor
> helps construct
> > the shared mental model of the system architecture, both from the
> > developer's viewpoint and the user's viewpoint.
> >
> > It's the shared mental model that makes things work. The important
> > thing is to have one that's effective; it's less important
> how one got it.
> >
> > John Roth
>
> Hi John,
>
> If you had to measure the efffectiveness of a metaphor how would you
> go about it?
>
> Thanks
> --
> Luiz Esmiralha
> Accenture - Brazil
> Tel.: +55 (21) 3823-0033
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