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[Jon Uddell's 2008 post about Ward Cunninghams' implementation of Brian Marick's 'Visible Workings'] https://blog.jonudell.net/2008/03/04/ward-cunninghams-visible-workings/ is a succinct introduction . connecting the Visible Workings pattern to the implementation made for a workflow system on behalf of the Eclipse Foundation.
[The "Swim" System for User-Oriented Presentation for Test-Case results](https://wiki.eclipse.org/images/2/20/Swim_System_PNSQC_2007_Paper.pdf). Plain spoken Paper by Ward Cunningham,
[The "Swim" System for User-Oriented Presentation for Test-Case results](https://wiki.eclipse.org/images/2/20/Swim_System_PNSQC_2007_Paper.pdf). Plain spoken Paper by Ward Cunningham, Bjorn Freeman-Benson and Karl Matthias.
> Perhaps the highest compliment we received was when one of our customers (SC) said that she
> easily understood how everything worked because it "uses her words" in the interface panels and
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> table. Time advances as you move down the rows, and there’s a column for every
actor in the workflow.
![Screenshot by Jon Udell](https://i0.wp.com/jonudell.net/img/visibleworking3.png?w=656)
!["Change personal address" Sequence diagram. 'Start' at the left, 'big2' and 'emo' column. big2 did some actions, and this results in 'User address changed'. Followed by some 'variations' (the swim paper in the linked post explains this). The 'emo' column has one 'emo address changed' box. Screenshot by Jon Udell](https://i0.wp.com/jonudell.net/img/visibleworking3.png?w=656)
Screenshot by Jon Udell.
[Jon Uddell's] https://blog.jonudell.net/2008/03/04/ward-cunninghams-visible-workings/ is a succinct introduction . connecting the Visible Workings pattern to the implementation made for a workflow system on behalf of the Eclipse Foundation.
[Jon Uddell's post]( https://blog.jonudell.net/2008/03/04/ward-cunninghams-visible-workings/) is a succinct introduction . connecting the Visible Workings pattern to the implementation made for a workflow system on behalf of the Eclipse Foundation.
The "Swim" paper
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