The power of analogies: what trains, bars, kitchens and highways can tell you about your work(flow)

The power of analogies: what trains, bars, kitchens and highways can tell you about your work(flow)

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  The power ofanalogies: what trains, bars, kitchens & highways can tell you about your work (flow) @carloz #BSW14
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  me
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  ... “C’avete presenteFacebook”?
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  analogies matter
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  #sensemaking "Strange wordshave no meaning for us; common terms we know already; it is metaphor which gives us most of this pleasure." Aristotle, Rhetoric "Analogies prove nothing, that is true, but they can make one feel more at home." Sigmund Freud
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  See the whole
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  (Tv) kitchens
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  Bars
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  … & processes Oblivious: “We don’t even know that we’re performing a process.” Variable: “We do whatever we feel like at the moment.” Routine: “We follow our routines (except when we panic).” Steering: “We choose among our routines by the results they produce.” Anticipating: “We establish routines based on our past experience with them.” Congruent: “Everyone is involved in improving everything all the time.” Gerald M. Weinberg, Six Patterns of Software Quality Culture
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  Trains
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  fila(s)
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  Highways
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  :-) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Auklet_flock_Shumagins_1986.jpg http://grammar.about.com/od/advicefromthepros/a/WritersOnMetaphors.htm http://grammar.about.com/od/rhetoricstyle/f/qanalogy07.htm http://nordestinafashionista.blogspot.it/2010/10/flagship-store-da-c.html http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostrada_A14_(Italia)#mediaviewer/File:Autostrada_A14.jpg http://www.bbcamerica.com/kitchen-nightmares/wp-content/blogs.dir/40/files/2011/08/kitchennightmares_promo_01.jpg http://images.roma.corriereobjects.it/methode_image/2013/12/02/Roma/Foto%20Roma/P3F4_1466418F1_10691.jpg?v=20131202122714 http://www.noop.nl/2010/02/discipline-skill-craftsmanship.html http://www.geraldmweinberg.com/Site/Home.html