iCom is a cooperative EU-project between the Vienna University and the Masaryk University in Brno to promote and research constructive, international communication in the context of Information- and Communication Technology (ICT). On September 26-27th I was invited to join the 3rd iCom workshop in Chvalovice.
The workshop was focused on communication (obstacles, transparency and openness) and cooperation in IT projects, computer-supported communication as well as agile methods and characteristics of well-functioning teams. At the end of the workshop some participants were asked to comment on the importance of communication and the value the workshop provided. This is my comment:
I found the workshop very valuable and I look forward to further participating in the project.
This is just a thought I want to keep: Investigate differences and similarities of Test Driven Development and Formal Specification. There is also a history of executable specifications – does this mean “tests”? Not sure I mix up a few things right now but I think it is worth to consider it a bit further. Also, recently Microsoft Research publishes more about SpecSharp (Spec#).
Today our company invited the department of Computer Science at the Technical University Vienna to present current research topics and results as well as to discuss possible collaborations. I am curious about the result of this event.
In a workshop Alexander Schatten discussed issues of Agile Development of businesses as well as software and he mentioned the following quote:
Die Krisis des Wissens wird, wie gesagt, kognitiv getrieben von der neuen Relevanz des Nichtwissens, und sie wird operativ davon getrieben, dass es nun darum geht, die richtigen Fehler schneller zu machen als die Wettbewerber, um Lernprozesse zu intensivieren, die im Kern darin bestehen, Expertise im Umgang mit Nichtwissen zu entwickeln.1
in English:
The crisis of knowledge ist cognitively driven by the new relevance of nescience. Operationally it is driven by the necessity to make the right mistakes faster than the competitors to intensivate learning processes, what means developing expertise in handling nescience.
Knowledge management typically deals with the knowledge of an organisation but I like the idea of managing what we do not know better. However, wow do we know that a particular topic, technology, etc. will be relevant in the future? A company basically only invests in knowledge it can utilise later.
1 Willke Helmut. Dystopia, Studien zur Krisis des Wissens in der modernen Gesellschaft. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Wissenschaft, Erste Auflage, 2002
