This presentation by Dave Thomas talks about the Dreyfuss Model of Skill Aquisition and how it applies to software development. However, the ideas and insights seem to apply to a number of other contexts, in particularly learning and teaching at Universities. I certainly found a lot of points that resonated.
The content in this presentation is expanded upon in this book which is also available here.
beerc
Excellent article. I suspect the bit around the 27 minute mark goes someway to explaining some recent decisions.
nfhood
That’s pretty darn cool seeing & hearing Dave Thomas in the flesh. I very much like the Pragmatic Programmers book (and some of their other titles) and their approach generally. If only it were more widely read and thought about around here.