Linda Rising

Linda Rising is an American author, lecturer, independent consultant. Rising is credited as having played a major role in having "moved the pattern approach from design into corporate change."[1] She also contributed to the book 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know, edited by Kevlin Henney and published by O´Reilly in 2009 (ISBN 059652269X).

University education

In 1964, Rising obtained a bachelor's degree in chemistry at the University of Kansas, in 1984 a Master of Science degree in computer science at Southern Illinois University and in 1987 a M. A. in mathematics at the Southwest Missouri State University. In 1992, Rising obtained her PhD degree in computer science from the Arizona State University, with her thesis entitled Information hiding metrics for modular programming languages relating to object-based design metrics.[2][3]

Teaching

Rising taught as instructor in mathematics and computer science at various universities throughout the midwest from 1977 to 1984 and worked as assistant professor from 1984 to 1987 at Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne.[2]

Industry, consulting and writing

In industry, she worked in the areas of telecommunications, avionics, and tactical weapons systems.[4]

Rising has extended the use of patterns, building upon the work of Christopher Alexander on a pattern language for architecture and the work of the Gang of Four on patterns for software development. She extended the use of patterns to the support of organisational change. Her work and lectures cover patterns, retrospectives, agile development approaches and the change process,[5] topics on which she is an internationally known lecturer.[4]

Since 2010, she is editor of the Insights series of the IEEE Software magazine.[6]

Her book The Pattern Almanac 2000 provides a comprehensive inventory of patterns compiled from publications in patterns conferences and books prior to the year 2000.[7][8] The patterns are listed by name and divided into categories, and for each pattern a rudimentary description as well as a reference to a book, journal or URL where the actual published pattern can be found is provided.[9] The Pattern Almanac 2000 has been cited as reference on existing patterns[7] and used as starting-point of further research.[10] Rising's indexing of existing patterns is seen as "a significant start toward achieving the ultimate goal of a pattern database."[11]

The study The scrum software development process for small teams by Rising and Norman S. Janoff is cited as first published study in which the scrum, a development process for small teams which includes a series of "sprints" which each last typically between one and four weeks,[12][13] was tested in real-life projects.[14] The study has been cited for showing "that nonhierarchical teams work more effectively through the complex iterations and time-consuming gestation of a software program" and that "they gain strength through shared successes and failures".[15]

She is editor of the book Design Patterns in Communication Software, a compendium of patterns, which appeared 2001. Contributors to her book include experts from the patterns community such as James O. Coplien and Douglas C. Schmidt.[16] She is author of Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas, co-authored with Mary Lynn Manns and published 2004.[17]

Rising has been keynote speaker at the agile 2007 conference (topic: "Are agilists the bonobos of software development?"),[18] the OOP 2009 conference (topic: "Who Do You Trust?"),[19] the Agile testing days Berlin 2010 (topic: "Deception and Estimation: How we fool ourselves"),[20] at the GOTO Amsterdam 2014 conference (topic: "Science or Stories?"),[21] and at the European Testing Conference 2016 in Bukarest (topic: "The Agile Mindset") [22]

Her work has inspired many in the agile community, for instance Steve Adolph and Paul Bramble, who, together with Alistair Cockburn and Andy Pols, expanded further on Rising's use patterns.[23]

Rising lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

Books

References

  1. ^ Preston G. Smith: Flexible product development: building agility for changing markets, John Wiley & Sons, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7879-9584-3, p. 245
  2. ^ a b Linda Rising Archived 2009-04-01 at the Wayback Machine at cox.net
  3. ^ Linda Rising on Customer Interaction Patterns, Interview with Linda Rising by Dan Puckett on December 29, 2010
  4. ^ a b Linda Rising at: Meetup - OpenSource & Agile Community Events
  5. ^ Linda Rising Archived 2012-05-13 at the Wayback Machine, QCon
  6. ^ Linda Rising: Telling Our Stories, IEEE IEEE Software Computer Society, May/June 2010, pp. 6-7 (available online from her homepage)
  7. ^ a b Gunter Mussbacher, Daniel Amyot, Michael Weiss: Formalizing patterns with user requirements notation, In: Toufuk Taibi: Design patterns formalisation techniques, IGI Publishing, ISBN 978-1-59904-219-0, p. 302-323, Page: 315
  8. ^ Aliaksandr Birukou, Enrico Blanzieri, Paolo Giorgini: Facilitating Pattern Repository Access with the Implicit Culture Framework, DOI 10.1.1.77.2404, p. 1
  9. ^ A directory of patterns Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine (book review)
  10. ^ C. Larman: Protected variation: the importance of being closed, IEEE Software, May 2001, Volume 18, Issue No. 3, pp. 89-91, DOI 10.1109/52.922731
  11. ^ Sherif M. Yacoub, Hany Hussein Ammar: Pattern-oriented analysis and design: composing patterns to design software systems, Addison-Wesley, 2003, ISBN 0-201-77640-5, p. 115
  12. ^ Linda Rising, Norman S. Janoff: The scrum software development process for small teams, IEEE Software, Volume 17 Issue 4, July 2000, IEEE Computer Society Press, doi:10.1109/52.854065, p. 6 Archived 2010-08-21 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ Torgeir Dingsøyr, Geir Kjetil Hanssen, Tore Dybå, Geir Anker, Jens Olav Nygaard: Developing Software with Scrum in a Small Cross-Organizational Project, R. Messnarz (Ed.): EuroSPI 2006, LNCS 4257, pp. 5–15, 2006, p. 6
  14. ^ Pekka Abrahamsson, Juhani Warsta, Mikko T. Siponen and Jussi Ronkainen: "New Directions on Agile Methods: A Comparative Analysis", Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering, May 3–5, 2003
  15. ^ Louis M. Abbey, Pamela Arnold, Lucy Halunko, Mary Beth Huneke, Stacie Lee: "Case studies for Dentistry: Development of a tool to author interactive, multimedia, computer-based patient simulations", Journal of Dental Education, December 2003, pp. 1345–1354, p. 1347
  16. ^ Design patterns in communication software, Cambridge University Press
  17. ^ Nicolai M. Josuttis: SOA in practice: The art of distributed system design, O´Reilly, 2007, ISBN 978-0-596-52955-0, p. 276
  18. ^ Agile 2007 Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine
  19. ^ OOP 2009, Program (in German language)
  20. ^ Agile testing days in Berlin, a report in German language
  21. ^ GOTO Amsterdam 2014 conference schedule
  22. ^ [1] conference schedule
  23. ^ Steve Adolph, Paul Bramble, with contributions by Alistair Cockburn, Andy Pols: Patterns for effective use cases, Addison-Wesley, 2003, ISBN 0-201-72184-8, section Pattern Language Heritage