Welcome everyone to Living Metaphor! I just checked the latest number of signed members and there are 18 of us signed up for this list. That's great! Finally,...
In 1998 I was working on my Adaptive book and chapter 3 was blank. I knew what had worked on projects for 5+ years and knew that somewhere I'd find some...
... Marco: Thanks for sharing your experience. I am also interested to find out how the rest of the group got interested in Complexity as related to software...
... I am a Family Therapist turned Agile Software Developer. I was drawn to Agile Software Development because of the explicit value it places on humans....
... I'm coming from the practical side of matters. Been in IT for almost 20 years, seen all the failures with waterfall systems and seen successes with agile...
Hi everybody, reading here http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/03/pr0351.htm I'm a little bit puzzled. In particular: "Some mutations that cause damage in the short...
For those interested I finally found the paper: http://myxo.css.msu.edu/papers/nature2003/Nature03_Complex.pdf -- Marco Abis Agility SPI: Software Process...
Jim: Thank you for participating. Your "Adaptive Software Development" book more than anything else, I think, has popularized the view that Complexity concepts...
Mike already posted this to several other mailing lists before. Sorry if you already seen this stuff but I "must" send this in a list called livingmetaphor :) ...
Marco, ... I'm reading "A Pattern Language" right now and I don't see the quote on 247. I was wondering if it was from "Timeless Way of Building" or "Oregon ...
Marco, Dave, ... Besides Alexander's definition, this named Natural Creation Law appears in many religions and mystical systems: - Laws of the possible - Links...
Marco, ... I just read the paper. As a newcomer to this topic, I found it enlightening. Can you provide a few references to the "previous art" that this...
Dave: it is of course enlightening, I only wonder why they spent a lot of energy/money to reach well known results. Let me say they did a great job and also...
Marco: It is probably a good idea to take a look at least of the central idea in this little paper (the "Living Metaphor" post): Life is a delicate balance...
Marco, ... I agree. The more interesting finding was: "In some cases, mutations that were deleterious when they appeared served as stepping-stones in the ...
Mike, ... This distinction interests me deeply! Recognizing that self-organization does not happen spontaneously in teams of humans helps me focus on bare ...
Mike: I'm not completely convinced about this. I mean: if we put a few people together to solve a problem (and each people has it's own capabilities) we can be...
Hi Marco, ... So I'm not as sure as you are that they will self-organize. I've seen cases where each person responds by working independently to solve the...
... you are right, that's why I wrote "not always they work to achieve the best result because of other interests/conflicts" but I'm quite sure that "in...
Hi Marco, ... Okay. I understand better now. ... Now I'm seeing something that I didn't see in your earlier message. You're using the word team, which...
... I think the answer to that is a definite yes: According to Kauffman's definition of life there _must_ be autocatalytic chains that at the very least figure...
Dale, ... From my experiences with athletic teams, therapeutic teams, and software development teams, "a few people" became a team when a shared goal existed...
Mike, ... I was reading Kauffman's "Investigations" for about 30 minutes when I noticed the dark smoke of incomprehension coming from my ears. I reverted to...
