Configuration Management - lecture 2a:

Construction site metaphor

Literature

• Bendix & Vinter.
  Study this paper. Make sure that you fully understand:
  • the motivation for running a workshop
  • what a metaphor is and why they are used
  • the construction site metaphor and theory
• Mikkelsen & Pherigo, chapter 3 (in parts).
  Read this chapter as background material - focus on the concepts and principles related to the construction site metaphor.

Lecture summary

• workshop background and purpose
• metaphors
• why worry about CM?
• construction site, metaphor, principles and activities
• examples
• co-ordination, communication
• how to run the workshop

Quote of the day

Adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit. [Add little to little and there will be a big pile.] (Ovid).