The Reflective Software Engineer: Reflective Practice

Most important: learning from what real software developers do!
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reflective practitioner
Tom DeMarco mentioned
Tore Dybå author #1
Robert Glass author #3
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” —Søren Kierkegaard – Wrong. Explained, not understood.
reflection on action
reflection in action
The concept of reflective practice centers on the idea of lifelong learning.
experiential learning
David Kolb: Kolb’s model of experiential learning (see Figure Experiential learning cycle)
- concrete experience
- reflective observation
- abstract conceptualization
- active experimentation
Paper mentioned – Basili, Caldiera: Experience Factories
Occasions of Reflection
This issue:
- Each article describes an approach that the authors have evaluated in some practical way.
- these articles aren’t just about the theory of reflective practice; they’re about its implementation.
- “Coderetreats: Reflective Practice and the Game of Life” by David Parsons, Anuradha Mathrani, Teo Susnjak, and Arno Leist
  - ??? “The Game of Life,” in which participants focus intensely on a narrowly described part of a program