What Is a Sociotechnical System
The Principles That Were Written in 1976
Module 1, Lesson 2
What you'll learn
You can identify five key Cherns principles from 1976, match real organizational situations to the principles they violate, and explain why the friction with these principles is not a comprehension problem but a tooling problem - the social system has no equivalent of a pull request.
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sociotechnical systemssystems thinkingCynefinConway's Lawteam topologiesorganizational designengineering managementsoftware architecturecognitive loadcomplexityscaling engineering teamsdecision-makingorganizational debtsense-making