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Causal Loop Diagram: Relativity & Diversity

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Causal Loop Diagrams

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Models as Conversation!

Variables

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Quality

Names, identifiable

Cause-Effect Relationships

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Quality

Quality

Something affecting

Quality directly

Something affecting

Quality inversely

Delays

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Quality

A Delay

Suggestion: No Negatives

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Bad Quality Simplifies

reasoning

Loops - Positive and Negative

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CCC

AAABBB

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AAABBB

Self-reinforcing, unstable

Stabilising, dampening

Interventions

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Intervention

Quality

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Now you…

Now build teams…

• Choose• Introduction• Your experience with Causal Loop

Diagram

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Activity 1

• Management says: “We need to hit the deadline, therefore we put the developers under pressure”

• Use also… • Quality• Morale

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Activity 1 - Now merge…

• Look at the models of your neighbours• Make them compatible • Merge them• What differences have you found?

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Activity 2

• Stated problem: “We don’t have time to create clean code, because we are too busy going slow because of dirty code.”

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Activity 2 - Now merge…

• Look at the models of your neighbours• Make them compatible • Merge them• What differences have you found?

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Questions?

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Pierluigi Pugliese

http://blog.connexxo.com

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