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Thinkie: Aligning Incentive
Pattern: people are working at cross purposes.
Sep 18
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Kent Beck
12
August 2025
Thinkie: Edges
Pattern: You aren’t getting enough resources coming in externally to be successful
Aug 26
•
Kent Beck
9
2
June 2025
Thinkie: Ask the Genie
Pattern: You have a question, any question, especially a question you have tended to abandon because it would be too much work.
Jun 26
•
Kent Beck
8
9
TWC I Wednesday, 4 June 2025
Oops, not Thursday
Jun 3
•
Kent Beck
4
1
Thinkie World Congress I
The prototype
Jun 3
•
Kent Beck
7
May 2025
Thinkie World Congress 1: June 4
Call for facilitators!
May 13
•
Kent Beck
11
2
Thinkie: Set-Based Design
¿Por qué no los dos?
May 7
•
Kent Beck
10
3
Thinkie: No Time Axis
Pattern: You’re stuck trying to understand or explain the relationship between two factors over time
May 1
•
Kent Beck
9
3
April 2025
Inhibiting Loop
This is the first in a series on systems thinking.
Apr 22
•
Kent Beck
8
Thinkie Aligning Incentive
Pattern: You can see that folks are working at cross purposes
Apr 2
•
Kent Beck
8
1
March 2025
Thinkie Perverse Incentive
Pattern: People are working so as to sabotage progress towards a desired outcome.
Mar 25
•
Kent Beck
14
3
Thinkie: Change Tradeoff Curves
Pattern: You’re stalled trying to make progress changing the outcome of a tradeoff.
Mar 21
•
Kent Beck
12
5
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