What Is a Sociotechnical System
Software Organizations Are Full-Lifecycle Sociotechnical Systems
Module 1, Lesson 3
What you'll learn
You can explain what full-lifecycle ownership means in software organizations, connect Vogels' "you build it, you run it" to the sociotechnical tradition, and articulate why the boundary between technical and social subsystems is a design decision rather than a discovered fact.
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sociotechnical systemssystems thinkingCynefinConway's Lawteam topologiesorganizational designengineering managementsoftware architecturecognitive loadcomplexityscaling engineering teamsdecision-makingorganizational debtsense-making