Re: Welcome new members

Hello everyone,

On 6 Apr 2004, at 10:20, Dale Emery wrote:
> We've had a dozen or so members join since our last conversation.

It's time I introduced myself. I'm Duncan Pierce, and I work broadly in 
the agile/xp camp as a consultant, mentor and developer - at least 
that's what I usually say. But what I really do is try to get involved 
with interesting problems so I can learn something new.

I've been interested for a long time in ways of increasing "leverage", 
that is, achieving grander goals, for me and for others. So, I'm 
interested in:

  * more advanced programming languages (write less, get more 
functionality), and I'm developing my own open source language for 
this;

  * more advanced ways of sharing and reusing software within and 
between organizations (don't write anything, get more mileage out of 
the functionality someone else already has) and did a PhD on this 
topic;

  * better ways to work together in teams to produce software (working 
together through shared process and practise), so I've been involved 
with the XP community in the UK since about 2000;

  * better understanding how people's emotional side affects their 
interactions with others on one-to-one and organizational bases 
(working together through common goals and mutual emotional 
involvement), and that's why I'm here.

My current thinking (and it may be somewhat naive at this stage) is 
that fear is the most common cause of resistance, but that overcoming 
fear helps people to feel stronger (I'm a rock climber so I might be a 
bit biased). When resistance is expressed there is potential to get to 
the root emotional cause, and translate the resistance into change that 
is positive. And then I saw the name of this list....

--
Duncan Pierce

http://dunkworks.com/



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