Learning Systems Thinking - Essential Non-Linear Skills and Practices for Software Professionals

Welcome to the systems age, where software professionals are no longer building software; we're building systems of software. Change is continuously deployed across software ecosystems coordinated by responsive infrastructure. > > You'll learn:

• How linear thinking limits your ability to solve system challenges
• Common obstacles to systems thinking and how to move past them
• New skills and practices that will transform how you think, learn, and lead
• Methods for thinking well with others and creating sound recommendations
• How to measure success in the midst of complexity and uncertainty

About the author

Diana has 20 years of experience delivering transformative initiatives, independently or as part of a professional services group, to clients including Stanford, The Gates Foundation and Teach For All. She has served as principal architect for The Economist and The Wikimedia Foundation. She founded Mentrix Group, a consultancy providing technology architecture, systems leadership and workshops on nonlinear approaches. Writing, teaching and thinking about thinking are her favorite hobbies.

Summary

In this world of increasing relational complexity, we need to think differently. Many of our challenges are systemic. This book shows you how systems thinking can guide you through the complexity of modern systems.

Product details

• Authors: Diana Montalion
• Publisher: O'Reilly
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2024
• EAN: 9781098151331
• ISBN: 978-1-09-815133-1
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 232 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 502 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; COMPUTERS / Logic Design, Computer programming / software engineering, Computer architecture & logic design, COMPUTERS / Computer Architecture, Computer architecture and logic design