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The
Spiritual Life of Projects Phillip G. Armour |
The development of software is a wholly human activity. The only thing that makes software is a
person and the only thing that makes lots of software is lots of people –
working together.
Understanding the nature and characteristics of the
executing domain and processor is important in any systems development, and if
we wish to better understand how to build software, we need to better
understand the nature of human beings.
People have capabilities that span several dimensions. There are four aspects to human behavior:
physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual. We can pick up and carry things, we can analyze and calculate
formulae, we can be angry and we can be happy.
In software, we have spent a lot of effort working on the
physical and intellectual, with our workstations and our methodologies, our
networks and our programming languages.
We have also recently started looking at some of the emotional aspects
of business, with the work of Daniel Goleman and the
concept of “Emotional Intelligence.”
But what about the “spiritual” aspects of
working together and building software?
These spiritual components of people as much a part of our
makeup as our intellect, and may be a lot more important in helping us learn
how to work more effectively.
This talk addresses what these spiritual components of
people are, where they operate, what the effect of working on them would be,
and how we can construct the software development environment to nurture and
support them.
About the Author
Phil has been developing software for over thirty years. He has been a programmer, analyst, project
manager, DBA, process engineer, metrics engineer, consultant and executive
coach and has worked for organizations as diverse as United Airlines, Motorola,
and Argonne National Laboratory. Phil has personally taught software
development techniques to over 20,000 engineers, managers, and executives over
the last 15 years.
Phil is a contributing editor on ACM’s flagship magazine “Communications of the ACM” and writes a
regular column entitled “The Business of
Software” where he explores issues to do with, well, the business of
software. He has been on the extended
faculty at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and the Mendoza School
of Business at the University of Notre Dame. Phil is also the author of “The Laws of Software Process” (Auerbach/CRC Press 2003) and is a Research Affiliate at the
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through the efforts of its Steering Committee. The Steering Committee is
composed of: Fred Ballard, Alan Berow,
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for the free and open exchange of software process improvement experiences and
practical ideas. We promote achieving higher levels of process maturity,
software quality and mutual respect. Companies, academic institutions, government
organizations and individuals are invited.
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