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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
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Kent Beck
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TWC I Wednesday, 4 June 2025
Oops, not Thursday
Jun 3
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Kent Beck
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TWC I Wednesday, 4 June 2025
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Thinkie World Congress I
The prototype
Jun 3
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Kent Beck
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Thinkie World Congress I
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May 2025
Thinkie World Congress 1: June 4
Call for facilitators!
May 13
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Kent Beck
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Thinkie World Congress 1: June 4
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Thinkie: Set-Based Design
¿Por qué no los dos?
May 7
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Kent Beck
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Thinkie: Set-Based Design
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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
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Kent Beck
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April 2025
Inhibiting Loop
This is the first in a series on systems thinking.
Apr 22
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Kent Beck
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Inhibiting Loop
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Thinkie Aligning Incentive
Pattern: You can see that folks are working at cross purposes
Apr 2
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Kent Beck
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March 2025
Thinkie Perverse Incentive
Pattern: People are working so as to sabotage progress towards a desired outcome.
Mar 25
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Kent Beck
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Thinkie: Change Tradeoff Curves
Pattern: You’re stalled trying to make progress changing the outcome of a tradeoff.
Mar 21
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Kent Beck
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Thinkie: Tradeoff
Pattern: Someone is trying to maximize some outcome, perhaps getting frustrated that progress has slowed.
Mar 19
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Kent Beck
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February 2025
Thinkie Reverse Causality
Pattern: You’ve tried to make a change by Thinkie Move Upstream [ed: not yet written].
Feb 25
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Kent Beck
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