Weinberg-Brooks’ Law
“More software projects have gone awry from management’s taking action based on incorrect system models than for all other causes combined.”
(Source: https://less.works/less/principles/systems_thinking.html)
Today’s session was about Causal Loop Diagrams (CLD). You may read more about CLDs here. We discovered why the behavior of a large development group (a system) not understood or guided skillfully. We used principles of complex positive (+) and negative (-) feedback loops and nonlinear behavior to understand relationships in large systems. We talked about Quick Fixes, Constraints, Opposite and Delayed Effects.
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