Shifting the Burden – Whose Monkey Is It? By Donald E. Gray

A new installment in the developer.* Systems and Software series, exploring the connections between general systems thinking, cybernetics, and software development. Author Don Gray applies systems thinking principles–including “balancing loops,” symptomatic and systemic solutions, and “shifting the burden”–to a recurring situation with one of his clients.
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