BruceAnderson put together a workshop of mentored object oriented design for IBM. It was held
at IBM's Thornwood education center May 24-28, 1993.
It became an important part of the HistoryOfPatterns because
of the impact it had on people invited to be leaders...

	* KentBeck
	* Ron Casselman
	* Desmond D'Souza aka DesmondDeSouza
	* RalphJohnson
	* DougLea
	* JohnVlissides

There was strong focus on reflection i.e. on learning from observation of what was happening, including what you were doing yourself.

We also had a NewGames facilitator (GeorgePlatts) over from England who did
a marvellous job of keeping everyone loose.  Making a YarnWeb at the end was a powerful finale.

We spent a week, did fun and amazing things, taught a lot, and
learned a lot.

IBM didn't pay the mentors much, so they felt correspondingly free to act as they thought best.

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Mentored Object-Oriented Design (by BruceAnderson - my notes on the event for a colleague)

52 participants, all with at least two years OO experience, 7 mentors (all from the Architecture Handbook group) and one games person.  Residential (for pretty well everyone), 5 days long, at IBM Thornwood NY.

One large classroom with chairs only, for plenaries and games; one large classroom with chairs and desks for talks; 10 breakout rooms for design teams.

Group working; two orthogonal activities -  10 design teams of 5 doing designs aided by mentors (2 sessions per day), 5 writing groups of 10 (1 from each team) writing on topics relevant to the work (2 sessions in the week).  Heavy focus on reflection, 40 minutes after (or interspersed with) 2 hours of design.  Reflection on "what we learned", "what to do next" and generating material for the writing groups.

Presentations: one short plenary midweek, plus writeups and posters from each group and team on the last day.

Mentor talks: two one-hour talks per day.

Plenaries: twice per day, games and announcements.

Details: many other OOPS/Wizard touches e.g. everyone's photo and details on the wall, general bulletin board, funny caption competition.

Evaluation: very positive, the focus on reflection worked in that people saw that they were learning.

(Run for IBM Skill Dynamics in 1993; Chamond Liu and Katherine Betz)