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 **Proposer**: [[2013:charles_tolman]]\\
 **Type**: Workshop/Discussion\\
-**Duration**: 90 minutes\\
+**Duration**: 45 minutes\\
 **Description**:
 First let me say that this will not be a presentation by someone with
-all the answers. It is to be a sharing and co-exploration of the more
+all the answers. It is to be a sharing of the more subtle aspects of
-subtle aspects of software development.\\
+software development from a practitioner's standpoint.\\
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 The field has seen an unprecedented transition of a significant part
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 dealing with non-physical constructs.\\
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-Yet just how aware are we of this fact? How do we see the development
+Yet just how aware are we of this fact?
-of the skills in dealing with this inner world’s dynamic? How can we
+How do we see the development of the skills in dealing with this inner
-communicate about it in any way that makes sense?\\
+world’s dynamic?
+How can we communicate about it in any way that makes sense?\\
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 I consider that the future positive, and human, progress of software
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 Gathering insights from the likes of Wolfgang Goethe, Henri Bortoft,
-Richard Glass and most importantly, the recent work of Christopher
+Richard Glass and also the recent work of Christopher Alexander, the
-Alexander, the speaker welcomes those who have the courage to
+speaker welcomes those who have the courage to literally take their
-literally take their hearts into their hands and dive into this inner
+hearts into their hands and dive into this inner world from a
-world from a practitioner’s viewpoint.\\
+practitioner’s viewpoint.\\
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-After an initial presentation, the format will be loosely based around
+Attendees will be invited to reflect about the inner processes of
-that of a workshop, with ample chance to share insights. A likely
+software development by considering what should be the familiar ground
-process will be to invite participants to go over what should be
+of various simple software design problems.\\
-familiar ground of working through various simple software design
-problems and reflecting upon the process, sharing insight in the
-context of the work done on these problems.\\
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-PS: Will be my first time at presenting at ACCU (gulp) although have
+PS: This will be my first time at presenting at ACCU (gulp) although have
 been to a fair number of the conferences in the past.\\
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