Archive - Thinkies of Software Design: Tidy First?

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

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

February 2025

Thinkie Reverse Causality

Pattern: You’ve tried to make a change by Thinkie Move Upstream [ed: not yet written].

Feb 25 •

Kent Beck

5

Thinkie Search Space

Pattern: You need to act in a context where you can’t predict what the result of actions will be.

Feb 18 •

Kent Beck

11

2

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