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