Extending Patterns for Fearless Change Learning the new idea
Daniel Cukier, Fábio Kon · 2011
The software industry is very dynamic and new ideas arise all the time from virtually any part of the world. It is not guaranteed that these ideas will be adopted, mainly because, among other obstacles, the solution may imply in having people change their way of thinking. Different from people, computers receive well defined commands and execute them precisely. We should take into account that human beings are independent and unpredictable. Despite of this unpredictability, we can find some behavioral patterns to help us deal with several situations, allowing us to achieve our objectives. In this paper, after a small introduction to the Patterns for Introducing New Ideas proposed by Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising, we propose four new patterns that can be added to the original catalog. In one of these new patterns, we show the great importance of combining artistic activities with day-to-day activities of people who work with software development and how Arts can help us to introduce new ideas. The study of some practices such as theater, painting, poetry, music, and meditation allowed us to find some connective elements between the purely mathematical side of the human mind and its creative, artistic one. Software development must be approached as a “human activity”, rather than a solely technical or logical one. [Copyright notice will appear here once ’preprint ’ option is removed.]