I think gardening and similar biologically-inclined metaphors are better suited for our industry than "architecture" sort of stuff. It takes a bit of humbleness to acknowledge the way things we do can grow in ways we didn't intend.
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I do like your abstraction to "biologically-inclined metaphors" Ben.
Thank you Robert for that article referring to our Management 3.0 workshop. That gardener metaphor also sticked to my mind since then. One thing I would add as a word and as a trait is 'patience' - with the plants and with oneself being a gardener.
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I think gardening and similar biologically-inclined metaphors are better suited for our industry than "architecture" sort of stuff. It takes a bit of humbleness to acknowledge the way things we do can grow in ways we didn't intend.
Yes and, like a gardener would do it with a bonsai tree, we should also cut down our code base regularly :)
I do like your abstraction to "biologically-inclined metaphors" Ben.
Thank you Robert for that article referring to our Management 3.0 workshop. That gardener metaphor also sticked to my mind since then. One thing I would add as a word and as a trait is 'patience' - with the plants and with oneself being a gardener.