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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).



Updated October 25, 2007