#Systems Thinking
4 articles
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
A review of Thinking in Systems. A book by Donella Meadows, known as a classic of systems thinking. Around concepts like stocks and flows and feedback loops, it offers a way to see the world as a system of interrelated parts. It argues for finding the cause of problems in structure rather than individual elements, and for discerning leverage points.
Reading Platform Engineering Through Systems Thinking
Platform engineering and systems thinking seem to share a lot of ground. This post puts that hunch into words by applying stocks, flows, delays, archetypes, and leverage points to read platform behavior and the failures that keep recurring.
Systems Thinking Basics: Seeing the World as Stocks and Feedback
A plain-language tour of systems thinking based on Donella Meadows' Thinking in Systems: stocks, flows, feedback loops, archetypes, and leverage points.
Into the World of Systems Thinking: For Software Engineers Who Keep Thinking in an Increasingly Complex Era
A review of a book introducing systems thinking for software engineers. Written from the angle of how software engineers can bring systems thinking into their own work, it connects tools like stocks and flows, feedback loops, and leverage points to phenomena that arise in development and organizations.