Linda Rising is an American author, lecturer, independent consultant. Rising has written and spoken about applying software design patterns to organizational change.Preston G. Smith: Flexible product development: building agility for changing markets, John Wiley & Sons, 2007, , p. 245 Her work is associated with the broader development of Agile software methodologies in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
University education In 1964, Rising obtained a bachelor's degree in chemistry at the University of Kansas, in 1984 a Master of Science degree in computer science at Southern Illinois University and in 1987 a M. A. in mathematics at the Southwest Missouri State University. In 1992, Rising obtained her PhD degree in computer science from the Arizona State University, with her thesis entitled Information hiding metrics for modular programming languages relating to object-based design metrics.Linda Rising at cox.netLinda Rising on Customer Interaction Patterns, Interview with Linda Rising by Dan Puckett on December 29, 2010
Career Rising taught as instructor in mathematics and computer science at various universities throughout the midwest from 1977 to 1984 and worked as assistant professor from 1984 to 1987 at Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne.
Rising has worked in the areas of telecommunications, avionics, and tactical weapons systems.Linda Rising at: Meetup - OpenSource & Agile Community Events
Rising has extended the use of patterns, building upon the work of Christopher Alexander on a pattern language for architecture and the work of the Gang of Four on patterns for software development. She extended the use of patterns to the support of organisational change. Her work and lectures cover patterns, retrospectives, agile development approaches and the change process,Linda Rising , QCon topics on which she has given lectures.
Since 2010, she is editor of the Insights series of the IEEE Software magazine.Linda Rising: Telling Our Stories, IEEE IEEE Software Computer Society, May/June 2010, pp. 6-7 (available online from her homepage)
Published material Her book, The Pattern Almanac 2000, compiles software design patterns from earlier publications and has been cited in subsequent research. provides a comprehensive inventory of patterns compiled from publications in patterns conferences and books prior to the year 2000.Gunter Mussbacher, Daniel Amyot, Michael Weiss: Formalizing patterns with user requirements notation, In: Toufuk Taibi: Design patterns formalisation techniques, IGI Publishing, , p. 302-323, Page: 315Aliaksandr Birukou, Enrico Blanzieri, Paolo Giorgini: Facilitating Pattern Repository Access with the Implicit Culture Framework, DOI 10.1.1.77.2404, p. 1 Rising's indexing of existing patterns is seen as "a significant start toward achieving the ultimate goal of a pattern database."Sherif M. Yacoub, Hany Hussein Ammar: Pattern-oriented analysis and design: composing patterns to design software systems, Addison-Wesley, 2003, , p. 115
The study The scrum software development process for small teams by Rising and Norman S. Janoff is cited as first published study in which the scrum, a development process for small teams which includes a series of "sprints" which each last typically between one and four weeks,Linda Rising, Norman S. Janoff: The scrum software development process for small teams, IEEE Software, Volume 17 Issue 4, July 2000, IEEE Computer Society Press, , p. 6 Torgeir Dingsøyr, Geir Kjetil Hanssen, Tore Dybå, Geir Anker, Jens Olav Nygaard: Developing Software with Scrum in a Small Cross-Organizational Project, R. Messnarz (Ed.): EuroSPI 2006, LNCS 4257, pp. 5–15, 2006, p. 6 was tested in real-life projects.Pekka Abrahamsson, Juhani Warsta, Mikko T. Siponen and Jussi Ronkainen: "New Directions on Agile Methods: A Comparative Analysis", Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering, May 3–5, 2003 The study has been cited for showing "that nonhierarchical teams work more effectively through the complex iterations and time-consuming gestation of a software program" and that "they gain strength through shared successes and failures".Louis M. Abbey, Pamela Arnold, Lucy Halunko, Mary Beth Huneke, Stacie Lee: "Case studies for Dentistry: Development of a tool to author interactive, multimedia, computer-based patient simulations", Journal of Dental Education, December 2003, pp. 1345–1354, p. 1347
She is editor of the book Design Patterns in Communication Software, a compendium of patterns, which appeared 2001. Contributors to her book include experts from the patterns community such as James O. Coplien and Douglas C. Schmidt.Design patterns in communication software, Cambridge University Press She wrote of Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas, co-authored with Mary Lynn Manns and published 2004.Nicolai M. Josuttis: SOA in practice: The art of distributed system design, O´Reilly, 2007, , p. 276
Keynote speeches Rising has given keynote speeches at the agile 2007 conference,Agile 2007 the OOP 2009 conference,OOP 2009, Program (in German language) the Agile testing days Berlin 2010,Agile testing days in Berlin, a report in German language at the GOTO Amsterdam 2014 conference,GOTO Amsterdam 2014 conference schedule and at the European Testing Conference 2016 in Bukarest. conference schedule
Rising lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
Books Mary Lynn Manns, Linda Rising: Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas, Addison-Wesley, 2004, - cited ca. 60 times Linda Rising (Editor), Douglas C. Schmidt (Foreword): Design Patterns in Communication Software, Cambridge University Press, 2001, - abstract - cited ca. 50 times Linda Rising: The Pattern Almanac 2000, Addison Wesley, 2000, - cited ca. 30 times Linda Rising: The Patterns Handbook: Techniques, Strategies, and Applications, SIGS Reference Library, Cambridge University Press, 1998, Linda Rising: Patterns Handbook: Best Practices, Cambridge University Press, 1997, - cited ca. 25 times Linda Sue Rising: Information hiding metrics for modular programming languages, Doctoral Dissertation, Arizona State University, 1992
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External links Homepage Linda Rising , speaker at QCon Linda Rising, author overview at InfoQ Interview on Coding By Numbers Podcast