Software Design: Tidy First?

Thinkie: Reinforcing Loop

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

Dec 18 • Kent Beck

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November 2025

Thinkie: Influence Diagram

How do effects affect effects?

Nov 20 • Kent Beck

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September 2025

August 2025

Thinkie: Edges

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

Aug 26 • Kent Beck

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June 2025

May 2025

Thinkie World Congress 1: June 4

Call for facilitators!

May 13 • Kent Beck

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Thinkie: Set-Based Design

¿Por qué no los dos?

May 7 • Kent Beck

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Thinkie: No Time Axis

Pattern: You’re stuck trying to understand or explain the relationship between two factors over time

May 1 • Kent Beck

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April 2025

Inhibiting Loop

This is the first in a series on systems thinking.

Apr 22 • Kent Beck

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Thinkie Aligning Incentive

Pattern: You can see that folks are working at cross purposes

Apr 2 • Kent Beck

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