Learning Systems Thinking: Essential Nonlinear Skills and Practices for Software Professionals

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Welcome to the systems age, where software professionals are no longer building software&emdash;we’re building systems of software. Change is continuously deployed across software ecosystems coordinated by responsive infrastructure.

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. Rather than relying on traditional reductionistic approaches, author Diana Montalion shows you how to expand your skill set so we can think, communicate, and act as healthy systems.

Systems thinking is a practice that improves your effectiveness and enables you to lead impactful change. Through a series of practices and real-world scenarios, you’ll learn to shift your perspective in order to design, develop, and deliver better outcomes.

You’ll learn:

How linear thinking limits your ability to solve system challengesCommon obstacles to systems thinking and how to move past themNew skills and practices that will transform how you think, learn, and leadMethods for thinking well with others and creating sound recommendationsHow to measure success in the midst of complexity and uncertainty

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0D9KWZRT2
Publisher ‏ : ‎ O’Reilly Media
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 11, 2024
Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 8.4 MB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 453 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1098151294
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #666,469 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #58 in Systems Architecture #84 in Computer Systems Analysis & Design (Kindle Store) #91 in Information Theory
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