Lightning Talk: Dearth of a Drafter - Einar Høst
Too many crafters
talk: death of a craftsman
what is the craft? who is the crafter? multiple crafts we only focus on ‘code craft’
not enough drafters too much focus on code
Drafter: -good at externalising mental models -collaborative modelling -multidisciplinary
Paper:
computer as models
drafter: catalyst for communication
writing software is easy to keep writing software is hard
metaphor: Tetris - hard to win - easy to lose - goal is to keep playing
not about factoring code, when people’s mental models are out of sync
is comparing mental models
real skill involved
needs to be practiced