The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition
by David Thomas, Andrew Hunt
Topic 36 | Blackboards |
The writing is on the wall…
Consider how detectives might use a blackboard to coordinate and solve a murder investigation. The chief inspector starts off by setting up a large blackboard in the conference room. On it, she writes a single question:
H. Dumpty (Male, Egg): Accident? Murder?
Did Humpty really fall, or was he pushed? Each detective may make contributions to this potential murder mystery by adding facts, statements from witnesses, any forensic evidence that might arise, and so on. As the data accumulates, a detective might notice a connection and post that observation or speculation as well. This process continues, across all shifts, with many different people and agents, until the case is closed. ...
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