Re: [tlug] Patricia Benner's "From Novice to Expert: Excellence, and Power in Clinical Nursing Practice"

["Zev Blut" <zb@example.com>]

On Tue, 01 May 2007 13:18:18 +0900, Curt Sampson  
<cjs@example.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Sigurd Urdahl wrote:
>
> > Curt Sampson wrote:
> >
> > > Which reminds me, one of the best books I've ever read about developing
> > > software (!) was Patricia Benner's _From Novice to Expert: Excellence
> > > and Power in Clinical Nursing Practice_. I'd recommend that anybody who
> > > manages software developers read this.
> >
> > Could you elaborate a little on your recommodation?

> The book describes the Dreyfus model of expertise, and gives examples of
> how it applies. I think that the model makes a lot of sense, having seen
> all five stages of it myself. The examples rang fairly true to me, and I
> think that they've got a reasonable chance of giving someone who is not
> an expert at something an idea of why and how experts "know what they
> know," as it were.

Just to follow up here are a few links from "Prag" Dave Thomas' blog about
the Dreyfus model.  They might help provide some more insight:

http://pragdave.pragprog.com/pragdave/2004/04/end_of_the_know.html

http://pragdave.pragprog.com/pragdave/2007/02/two_hands_bad_t.html

http://pragdave.pragprog.com/pragdave/2007/03/sywtwab_3_the_h.html