Software Design: Tidy First?

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This is the first in a series on systems thinking. There is so much more to systems thinking than this, but these are the bits I use daily. I recommend Diana Montalion’s Learning Systems Thinking or Donella Meadows Thinking in Systems as good starting places if you want to dig in.

Pattern: you want to improve but instead you’re going backwards.

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