While I was probably late to learn the concept of effectively testing strategy, I might have learned about systems modeling too early in my career, st

Systems modeling to refine strategy.

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While I was probably late to learn the concept of effectively testing strategy, I might have learned about systems modeling too early in my career, stumbling on Donella Meadows’ Thinking in Systems: A Primer before I began my career in software. Over the years, I’ve discovered a number of ways to miuse systems modeling, but it remains the most effective, flexible tool I’ve found to debugging complex problems.

After working through this chapter’s overview of systems modeling, this book also includes a number of specific models in support of various strategies, which will help cement these models use and creation.

This is an exploratory, draft chapter for a book on engineering strategy that I’m brainstorming in #eng-strategy-book. As such, some of the links go to other draft chapters, both published drafts and very early, unpublished drafts.

In all three categories, modeling makes it possible to rapidly iterate your thinking on a given topic, much faster than running a live process or technology experiment with your team might. As you combine a model with testing your strategy, you can learn much more quickly than using either technique alone.