Came across this article, entitled “The Art of Learning from a Colleague” HBR by Steven DeMaio about learning from a colleague.
Here’s the A-ha moment in the passage:
Indeed, my best learning experiences are when I get to see how someone else’s mind works. That usually doesn’t come with marveling at a finished document, presentation, or project. Nor does it come in typical collaboration venues, face-to-face or otherwise, where teams share ideas and figure out how to achieve common goals. Those learning opportunities have great value, there’s no question. But, for me, the real a-ha moments are the more intimate ones — when I witness a colleague’s thought processes in the raw, when she’s not in “collaboration mode” but in her own mode. Strange as it may sound, that means getting invited into her space — and inviting her into mine — to watch the wheels spin, to listen to them whir.
We do pair/extreme designing quite a bit on BettrAt. In fact, we noticed a huge shift in productivity when we changed from a cubicle/table sitting away from each other to being able to give each other feedback on what we were working on, in situ.
Naturally we see BettrAt as a place for self-reflection and peer learning, but it’s interesting to think about combining the two into one. How do we create the situated learning, pair programming experience within our platform? I’m going to spend some quiet time thinking about this.
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