Job Aids

"A job aid is a repository for information, processes, or perspectives that is external to the individual and that supports work and activity by directing, guiding, and enlightening performance."
   -- Rossett and Gautier-Downes, A Handbook of Job Aids, p. 45.

	A one-page guide to job aids Job Aids Job Aid - (.doc) (.pdf)
	The generic cube described in a Simages article: template (.doc) (.pdf).

These are some of the job aids I've created to help explain Extreme Programming (XP) and other software skills:

(See the Games for Programmers section of the site for games and exercises used to teach XP and other skills. See the books area for book reviews; of particular interest may be the book reviews on Learning and Training.)

	XP on One Page
	Java Coding Standard on a Page
	XP Programmer's Cube
	Scrum on a Page
	Configuration Management on a Page

The following example job aids were originally created for the session "Paper Toys that Teach", offered at NASAGA '03:

	Cutouts (.doc) (.pdf) - Interesting objects to make with paper.
	Flexagons (.doc) (.pdf) - Paper with a surprising number of sides. (Print on legal size paper and cut into a flexagon to use.)
	Origami (.doc) (.pdf) - The art of folding paper.
	Pop-Ups (.doc) (.pdf) - Paper that becomes three-dimensional when opened.
	Tessellations (.doc) (.pdf) - How to tile a plane.
	Up-Pops (.doc) (.pdf) - Self-opening pop-ups.
	Up-Pops Calendar Template (.doc) (.pdf)