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.

Job Aids Job Aid - (.doc) - A one-page guide to job aids

Here's the generic cube described in a Simages article: template.

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

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

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

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

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, Simulation, and Games.