Archive - Thinkies of Software Design: Tidy First?

Thinkies World Congress II: May 20, 2026

How about a discount?

May 14 • Kent Beck

Thinkie: Wider Scope

Another way a bigger problem can be easier to solve

May 11 • Kent Beck

Unstick Your Stuck Thinking

Thinkies World Congress II, online May 20, 2026

May 1 • Kent Beck

March 2026

Thinkie: Reinforcing Loop

Aka positive feedback loop

Mar 30 • Kent Beck

December 2025

Thinkie: Reinforcing Loop

Pattern 1: You have a situation where the worse it gets, the worse it seems to get

Dec 18, 2025 • Kent Beck

November 2025

Thinkie: Influence Diagram

How do effects affect effects?

Nov 20, 2025 • Kent Beck

September 2025

Thinkie: Aligning Incentive

Pattern: people are working at cross purposes.

Sep 18, 2025 • Kent Beck

August 2025

Pattern: You aren’t getting enough resources coming in externally to be successful

Aug 26, 2025 • Kent Beck

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, 2025 • Kent Beck

TWC I Wednesday, 4 June 2025

Oops, not Thursday

Jun 3, 2025 • Kent Beck

Thinkie World Congress I

Jun 3, 2025 • Kent Beck

May 2025

Thinkie World Congress 1: June 4

Call for facilitators!

May 13, 2025 • Kent Beck

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