Confessional couch
Confessional couch
• Between slideware and reality
• Sub-optimal outcomes - fails
• The people aspects of (technical/business)
failure
• My role?
• The social/institutional aspects of the
failure?
• Two service offerings
• Religious - confess your sins
• Secular – talking therapy
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Rules of the road
● Chatham House
● Strict anonymty
● No blame
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The seven deadly sins of (bio)informatics
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Lust
Greed
Sloth
Wrath
Gluttony
Envy
Pride
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Parochialism and Insularity - reinvention
Exceptionalism –”but I’m special”
Autonomy or death! – caveat emptor SLAs
Vanity: Pride and Narcissism
Monolith Meglomania
Scientific Method Sloth
Instant Gratification
Professor Carole Goble, The University of Manchester, UK
https://www.slideshare.net/dullhunk/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-bioinformatics
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Fail patterns
Identifying common fail patterns / anti-patterns?
• What went wrong?
• Why did it go wrong?
• How can you tell when its going wrong?
• How can you stop it going wrong?
• Are there discernible patterns?
Groups
- What are the patterns – name and describe.
Report back
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