MayTaylor03

Daniel May & Paul Taylor
Knowledge Management with Patterns Commun ACM V46n7(Jul 2003)pp94-99
=ANECDOTE ORGANIZATION PATTERNS WRITING SOCIAL
Patterns are a way to record/transmit/share/create organization's policies.
Not rules: rules in context!
PATTERN:=Net{name, context, problem, forces, solution, rationale, resulting_context, related_patterns}.
Process: incrementally and slowly make tacit knowledge explicit: identify; draft; relate to existing; editing(shepherd); workshop

Dennning03

Peter J Denning
Accomplishment Commun ACM V46n7(Jul 2003)pp19-23
=ADVERT Language-action PHILOSOPHY PEOPLE SYSTEMS COORDINATION USER AI
People use language to make more or less explicit contracts for action. Trust comes from a promised action satisfying expectations.
action_loop::=#( a.request; b.promise; b.deliver; a.accept).
Watch out for miscommunication. Exposed by action.
Loss of market can come from lack of satisfaction in above loop between producer and consumer.
Used as a basis for Email client.
Management depends on handling action_loops.
There are protocols for inventing possibilities.
disclosure: Implicit awareness of signals about other's thoughts & feelings (but distorted). Need to consciously listen; react; adjust interpretation. [DenningDunham03]

A O Hirschman & C E Lindblom
Economic Development, Research and Development, Policy Making: Some Converging Views Behavioral Science V7(1962)pp211-222 & [Emery69] pp351-371
=SURVEY AGILE PROCESSES in ECONOMICS SOCIOLOGY POLITICS ORGANIZATION
Argues that complexity, uncertainty, and value conflicts are best handled incrementally with piecemeal unbalanced development that is driven by what happens.
"incremental meandering"
"adjusting the ends to fit the current means"

E Nagel
A Formalization of Functionalism
Logic Without Metaphysics Free Press 1956 pp247-283, reprinted Emery69
=ESSAY FUNCTION SYSTEMS
p298. distinguishes mathematical function from purpose.
p311. functional analysis in social systems requires a standardized/patterned/repetitive items

David Fogel
Evolutionary Entertainment with Intelligent Agent
IEEE Computer Magazine V36n6(Jun 2003)pp106-108
=EXPERIENCE AI GAMES PERSONA EXPERT EVOLUTION AGENT NEURAL WEB/NET CHECKERS DRAUGHTS Blondie24
=ADVERT book product
After 840 generations moved to top 500 of 120,000 players on www.zone.com
Needed to adopt a female persona to stop opponents swearing at the neural network.

Martin Campbell-Kelly
From Airline reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry MIT Press ISBN 0-262-03303-8 $29.95, Review IEEE Computer Magazine V36n6(Jun 2003)pp78-
=HISTORY

Mark Lycett & Robert D Macredie & Chaitali Patel & Ray J Paul
Migrating Agile Methods to Standardized Development practice
IEEE Computer Magazine V36n6(Jun 2003)pp79-85
=EXPERIENCE AGILE embedded in SEQUENTIAL PLANNED PROCESS RUP in CMM PATTERNS one-size
disclaimer: authors from my Alma Mata.
Problems with embedding iterative RUP into a hierarchical planned organization pursuing CMM certification.
Proposed situational process model to evolve catalog of situation><practice patterns because CMM audit needs documented practices.
Used RUP UML process modeling.