With the support of a few key concepts, related to flow dynamics and patterns, the observation of highways queues, bars preparation of expresso coffe, people boarding on a train, restaurant kitchens as seen on television, ... may become an intellectual excercise, and a learning experience, able to provide valuable insights on the way you manage work items and request flows in your daily job

1. The power of analogies: what trains,
bars, kitchens & highways can tell you
about your work (flow)
@carloz #BSW14

2. me

3. ...
“C’avete presente Facebook”?

4. analogies matter

5. #sensemaking
"Strange words have no meaning for us; common terms we know already; it is
metaphor which gives us most of this pleasure."
Aristotle, Rhetoric
"Analogies prove nothing, that is true, but they can make one feel more at
home."
Sigmund Freud

6. See the whole

7. (Tv) kitchens

8. Bars

9. … & processes
Oblivious: “We don’t even know that we’re performing a process.”
Variable: “We do whatever we feel like at the moment.”
Routine: “We follow our routines (except when we panic).”
Steering: “We choose among our routines by the results they produce.”
Anticipating: “We establish routines based on our past experience with them.”
Congruent: “Everyone is involved in improving everything all the time.”
Gerald M. Weinberg, Six Patterns of Software Quality Culture

10. Trains

11. fila(s)

12. Highways

14. :-)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Auklet_flock_Shumagins_1986.jpg
http://grammar.about.com/od/advicefromthepros/a/WritersOnMetaphors.htm
http://grammar.about.com/od/rhetoricstyle/f/qanalogy07.htm
http://nordestinafashionista.blogspot.it/2010/10/flagship-store-da-c.html
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostrada_A14_(Italia)#mediaviewer/File:Autostrada_A14.jpg
http://www.bbcamerica.com/kitchen-nightmares/wp-content/blogs.dir/40/files/2011/08/kitchennightmares_promo_01.jpg
http://images.roma.corriereobjects.it/methode_image/2013/12/02/Roma/Foto%20Roma/P3F4_1466418F1_10691.jpg?v=20131202122714
http://www.noop.nl/2010/02/discipline-skill-craftsmanship.html
http://www.geraldmweinberg.com/Site/Home.html