Journey From Novice To Expert

 

Journey From Novice To Expert

Study: 

* RULE1:

** Always consider the context.

* RULE2:

** Use rules for novices, intuition for experts.

* RULE3:

** Know what you don't know.

* RULE4:

** Learn by watching and imitating.

* RULE5:

** Keep practicing in order to remain expert.

* RULE6:

** Avoid formal methods if you need creativity, intuition, or inventiveness.

* RULE7:

** Learn the skill of learning.

* No Expertise without Experience.

* The model is a tool, not a mirror.

  

* A hard work it is:

  * You need a well-defined task.

  * The task needs to be appropriately difficult -- chanllenging but doable.

  * The environment needs to supply informative feedback that you can

    act on.

  * It should also provide oppoetunities for repetition and correction

    of errors.

    

* Here are some observations for nurse and programmers:

** Expert staff members working in the trenches aren't always recognized as experts or paid accordingly.

** Not all expert staff want to end up as managers.

** There's a huge variance in staff members' abilities.

** There's a huge variance in managers' abilities.

** Any given team likely has members at widely different skill levels and can't be treated as a homogeneous set of replaceable resources.

* 5 Dreyfus Model Stages:

  1. Novice: Novice need recipes. When something unexpected comes up,

     they will be completely flummoxed.

  2. Advanced beginners: Advanced beinners don't want the big picture.

  3. Competent: Competents can troubleshoot. But they can't apply

     agile methods the way we would like.

  4. Proficient: can self-correct.

  5. Expert: work from intuition, not from reason.

** Rules ruins Experts.

** From Novice to Expert:

*** Moving away from relience on rules to intuition.

*** A change in perception, where a problem is no longer a collection of equally relevant bits but a complete and unique whole where only certains bits are relevant.

*** Finally, a change from being a detached observer of the problem to an involved part of the system itself.