symmathesy
…their tools. The application to software sounds a lot like [[sociotechnical systems]]. See [Bateson's original proposal for the term](https://norabateson…
Contents
The concept of sociotechnical systems takes a holistic approach to technology and recognizes that technical systems are inseparable from their human operators and maintainers.
The software consultancy Thoughtworks writes about their experience with failed Migrations off of legacy systems resulting from focusing only on the technological aspects and ignoring the social and human components:
the poor outcomes they were seeing were largely a product of the organization; specifically it’s leadership, structure and ways of working. They thought by just selecting newer technologies, but leaving everything else more or less unchanged, that they would get different outcomes from the past. In hindsight this was clearly unrealistic.
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Migrations
…can happen for a number of reasons, most of them [[sociotechnical systems|sociotechnical]], e.g. - In large apps, it can be difficult…
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Justice
…structure of society should be understood as a composite of [[sociotechnical systems…
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the iceberg model of systems
…ve found it useful to apply this model to the [[sociotechnical systems]] I am a part of at work. ## Events **Events** are…