RE: Throwing out the practices for a night.

An exercise I've found helpful for connecting practices to the real
world is to draw a map of the practice. Here is the map Cindee and I
drew for Energized Work
http://www.threeriversinstitute.org/Extreme%20Programming%20in%20Picture
s.htm. I am curious what kind of map you would draw, and where your late
night sessions would fit on it (I also occasionally wake up at night
with inspirations and work for an hour or two).

To directly address the need for regeneration, we are planning a
four-day programming intensive this February. For more information see
http://www.threeriversinstitute.org/Programming%20Intensive.htm. Contact
us for more information.

Kent Beck
Three Rivers Institute

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Boucher [mailto:bonsai1966-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 4:52 AM
> To: xpbookdiscussiongroup-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xpe2e] Throwing out the practices for a night.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I haven't been sleeping well. This happens when I'm frustrated with 
> things, especially when I'm not sure what I'm frustrated with, and 
> with a pregant wife and a national election, I wasn't too surprised 
> over an hour or two of insomnia.
> 
> But there was something at work bothering me too. So I turned on VNC 
> before I went home and about 9pm decided to start throwing practices 
> out the window.
> 
> Some unit tests that were less perfect than they wanted to be needed 
> some revisiting and refactoring, mostly set-up and tear down, and 
> removal of duplication. So out the window goes pair programming and 
> out the window goes Energized Work (or maybe not, after all the goal 
> was to re-energize myself). So now, on the screen is a list of 
> improved unit test for my pair to review the old fashioned quality 
> inspection way and I'm up bright, early, and excited about going to 
> work again.
> 
> I think that's what I felt was missing in Kent's except on Energized 
> Work. It really did a great job of reinforcing the troubles with 
> working too much, but it didn't seem to touch on the troubles with 
> working too little and just feeling unproductive sometimes. Both 
> impact my output/hour immensely and if I get too locked up in 
> Energized Work and Pair Programming I just don't get that feeling of 
> productivity that energizes me.



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