David Botton david@botton.com
The CLOG Composer is a tool that will assist you to design from scratch, manage and monitor software projects.
The world is a symphony of patterns, identifying them is near prophecy. (David Botton)
Unlike other tools designed to create more work for the developer to create metrics for managers, CLOG Composer helps inspire, organize and monitor to allow for faster development, a more robust product and offer better communications to the entire team and enterpise.
The heart of the composer is using process patterns to reduce the complexity of software development. Process patterns are creative patterns, software development patterns, and deployment/monitoring patters.
The Composer is written in the Common Lisp Omnificent GUI, CLOG for short, so it will run on almost any OS and any device.
The Composer is part of CLOG's Common Lisp tool suite however much of the system will assist any project in any language and not only software projects.
Ideas for Components:
- Team communications a. Chat b. Podeum for ideas c. Innovation tournaments d. Manager/Sponsor Adopter Market - show off ideas to get buy in e. Assist board - praises for team efforts f. Teach It Forum - area focused on training each other g. Progress Monitor h. Challanger board for team games i. Success board - things overcome
- Artifact database (graphics, code, documents)
- Prodictivity Hub
a. Capture ideas
b. Delegate ideas
c. Schedule ideas
d. Compound ideas
e. Review ideas
f. Implement ideas
- Steps
- Delegations
- Awaiting state
- Depends on e. Connected ideas / details f. Monitor ideas and progress g. Context of ideas
- Focus tools a. Timers b. Words of Inspiration c. Distraction Combat System d. Time Visualiation System e. Gamifying System
- CLOG Plunger - writer Block Breaker
- Organization a. Routine builder b. Future planner c. Self awareness tracker d. Excellence chaser e. Balancer / Prioritization Tool f. Simplifier g. Automate / Delegation tracking h. Experimenter tracker
- Review system a. Code reviews b. Signoff requirement fulfillment c. Signoff idea contribution d. Loose Ends e. Up to Date f. New ideas connected to review - plan to "restart"
- Journaling system a. dumping to the Prodictivity Hub ideas b. unloading nonsence venting - contribution to narratives mind clearing - general source of ideas reduce anxiety - dump todos, next steps c. places for grattitude - connections to others and life d. identifiying reality - what shows your narrative is true e. add to patterned responses that build your narrative f. seeing different perspectives for realities g. idea challanges - brain storming system - no edits h. shared journaling areas with team
Key Patterns Behind the Composer
Place + Time = Consistency Your Narrative is your Reality and What you will be Review of narratives Truth of narratives Identify where the narrative goes next Rewrite you narrative and reality often if needed Anxiety not knowing what to do next Boredom is an addiction Boredom plans a cure Hacking the process is a procrastination in and of itself Questions force your brain to find answers Best ideas require interaction with others Iterations are about closer to excellence not perfection