Re: Throwing out the practices for a night.

The two types of diagrams are meant to depict different things:
Weinberg's system diagrams are used to analyze positive/negative
feedback cycles in a system.  MindMaps are used to brainstorm, organize
and explore relationships between concepts.

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> I have used Weinberg's system diagrams. However, I think I can get more
> information and more kinds of information onto a mind map. If you want 
> a
> system diagram of Energized Work, you could translate mine or draw one
> of your own.
>
> Kent Beck
> Three Rivers Institute
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Russell Gold [mailto:russgold-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 1:04 PM
>> To: xpbookdiscussiongroup-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [xpe2e] Throwing out the practices for a night.
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>> On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 12:09:35 -0800, Kent Beck
>> <kentb-ihVZJaRskl1bRRN4PJnoQQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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%20Pictu
>>> re
>>> 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).
>>
>> Your diagrams look as though they are intended to represent
>> the kinds of information Gerry Weinberg shows in his "diagram
>> of effects" which he uses in the "Quality Software
>> Management" series. It's too bad you did not use the same notation.
>>
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