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Thinking in Promises
Mark Burgess
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Description for Thinking in Promises
Paperback. The goal of Promise Theory is to reveal the behavior of a whole from the sum of its parts, taking the point of the parts rather than the whole. In other words, it is a bottom-up constructionist view of the world. Start Thinking in Promises and find out why this discipline works for documenting system behaviors from the bottom-up. Num Pages: 194 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: UB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 298.
Imagine a set of simple principles that could help you to understand how parts combine to become a whole, and how each part sees the whole from its own perspective. If such principles were any good, it shouldn't matter whether we're talking about humans on a team, birds in a flock, computers in a datacenter, or cogs in a Swiss watch. A theory of cooperation ought to be pretty universal, so we could apply it both to technology and to the workplace. Such principles are the subject of Promise Theory, and the focus of this insightful book. The goal of ... Read more
Imagine a set of simple principles that could help you to understand how parts combine to become a whole, and how each part sees the whole from its own perspective. If such principles were any good, it shouldn't matter whether we're talking about humans on a team, birds in a flock, computers in a datacenter, or cogs in a Swiss watch. A theory of cooperation ought to be pretty universal, so we could apply it both to technology and to the workplace. Such principles are the subject of Promise Theory, and the focus of this insightful book. The goal of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
O´Reilly Media, Inc, USA
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
194
Place of Publication
Sebastopol, United States
ISBN
9781491917879
SKU
V9781491917879
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99-2
About Mark Burgess
Mark Burgess is the founder, CTO and principal author of Cfengine. For the past 20 years, he has led the way in the theory and practice of automation and policy based management
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