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Title: Gumption traps Reloaded
Proposer: rachel_davies
Proposer: ivan_moore
Type: Workshop
Duration: 90 minutes
Description:
In the book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into
Values” the author, Robert Pirsig, talks about “gumption traps”; things
that sap motivation, such as not having the correct tools. In this
workshop, we invite participants to identify gumption traps. We will be
drawing influence charts, an approach from Systems thinking, to help
groups explore suggestions for how to avoid or combat gumption traps.
We ran workshops on this topic at OOSPLA 2004 and ACCU2006, but this
incorporates some new material building on ideas from Daniel Pink's book
“Drive”.
Intended audience:
Software developers, managers and coaches who would
like to avoid gumption traps for themselves and their teams.
Process:
The purpose of the opening presentation is to introduce the topic and lead
into group discussion. Participants are invited to share relevant stories
with the session group, this leads into a brainstorming session on
drawing out factors affecting motivation in software development.
The session participants will then be divided into smaller work groups and
given a worksheet on influence charts. Each work group will select a story
based on their own experience and work to create an influence chart that
shows factors impacting motivation.
To wrap up, each work group will take a turn to present their chart and
insights gained to the session group.
Timetable:
00:00 - 00:05 Introductions
00:05 - 00:20 Slide presentation on identification of gumption traps, suggestions for how to avoid them
00:20 - 00:25 Questions
00:25 - 00:40 Sharing Gumption trap stories
00:40 - 00:45 Divide session participants into work groups
00:45 - 01:15 Each group explores a story using influence charts (aka diagram of effects)
01:15 - 01:30 Each group presents what they learned to the session group
Roger: Yes: this sounds like an interactive session without the problems of only a very limited number of attendees.
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