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<head><title>Driving Metaphor</title></head><body><h1><img src="logo.gif"> Driving Metaphor</h1>My mother taught me how to drive when I was about 12. We were on I-5 near Chico, a straight, boring stretch of really wide highway. She let me feel how the steering wheel was connected to the direction of the car, then told me to get the car straight in our lane. I carefully lined the car up. Then my mind wandered a little. I was snapped back to attention when we hit the gravel (will I have the guts to let my kids do this when the time comes?)
<p>"Driving is not about getting the car pointed in the right direction." I was ready to listen now. "Driving is about constant adjustment. A little this way, a little that way, forever. You always pay attention. You are always prepared to change things."
<p>This describes <a href="ExtremeProgramming.html">ExtremeProgramming</a>'s philosophy to me. The "right direction" for the project is irrelevant. What matters is that you pay attention, and that you are constantly adjusting. If you do this, there is no externally visible difference between the two.
<p>I told my wife this story. "What a guy thing. An endless stream of problems to be solved. Heaven. Driving is about flow. If you make the adjustments small enough and quick enough, then they completely disappear." So, to balance the above story, check out <a href="OneHandOnTheYoke.html">OneHandOnTheYoke</a>.
<p>--<a href="KentBeck.html">KentBeck</a>
<p>You should listen to your wife more. This <a href="DrivingMetaphor.html">DrivingMetaphor</a> seems to be very dominant control oriented. As if someone is controlling the machinery. In <a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?KentsTalkAtXpImmersionTwo">KentsTalkAtXpImmersionTwo</a> you suggested the XP paradigm was a Conversation. Check out <a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ConversationMetaphor">ConversationMetaphor</a> and see how it fits.
<p>Ron, could you fill in the <a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?NoBadNews">NoBadNews</a> story? I think it shows one of the reasons <a href="WhyIsXpSoHard.html">WhyIsXpSoHard</a>. The driving paradigm is at odds with the car pointing paradigm prevailing in much of the corporate world.
<p><a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SteerWithYourEyes">SteerWithYourEyes</a>
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Look at the two versions of the event in terms of granularity. He and she both saw incremental controls, it's just a matter of degree. Are a series of minor adjustments more control oriented than apparent continuous domination?
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"Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the entire journey that way." --E. L. Doctorow
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