General Systemantics¶
Gall, J. (1975). General Systemantics: An Essay on How Systems Work, and Especially How They Fail, Together with the Very First Annotated Compendium of Basic Systems Axioms: A Handbook and Ready Reference for Scientists, Engineers, Laboratory Workers, Administrators, Public Officials, Systems Analysts, Etc., Etc., Etc., and the General Public. General Systemantics Press.
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Mechanisms¶
- Lean Design Review
- Its strength is catching over-design before it is built in, when a step or dependency is still cheap to drop — the moment a complex system is most tempted to grow past the simple one that would have worked.
This sourceStates that working complex systems evolve from working simpler systems.
- Its strength is catching over-design before it is built in, when a step or dependency is still cheap to drop — the moment a complex system is most tempted to grow past the simple one that would have worked.
- Staged Release Ladder
- … is turning restraint into a legitimate path rather than a wall: because ambition has somewhere concrete to go and a promised reconsideration, the launch rung can stay lean without provoking revolt, embodying the lesson that a complex system that works is invariably built up from a simpler system that worked.
This sourceStates Gall’s principle that a complex system that works is found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked.
- … is turning restraint into a legitimate path rather than a wall: because ambition has somewhere concrete to go and a promised reconsideration, the launch rung can stay lean without provoking revolt, embodying the lesson that a complex system that works is invariably built up from a simpler system that worked.
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