Major Influences

This page collects a number of references that are major influences.

Presentations

Architectural Patterns Revisited, A Pattern Language by Paris Avergiou and Uwe Zdun
Leader’s Framework for Decision Making by David J. Snowden and Mary E. Boone
Leverage Points: Places to intervene in a system by Donella Meadows
An updated version is included as a chapter in her posthumous book Thinking in Systems (see below)
Loosely Coupled Systems: A Reconceptualization by J. Douglas Orton and Karl E. Weick
Modifiability Tactics by Felix Bachmann, Len Bass and Robert Nord
On the Mismatch between Systems and their Models by Russell L. Ackoff and Jamshid Gharajedaghi
Relating Business Goals to Architecturally Significant Requirements for Software Systems by Paul C. Clements and Len Bass
The new dynamics of strategy: Sense-making in a complex and complicated world by Cynthia F. Kurtz and David J. Snowden

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why it Matters by Richard P. Rumelt
Lean Startup by Eric Ries
On Purposeful Systems: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Individual and Social Behavior as a System of Purposeful Events by Russell L. Ackoff and Frederick E. Emery
Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less by Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao
Software Architecture in Practice, 3rd Edition by Len Bass, Paul Clements and Rick Kazman
Strategy Safari: The Complete Guide Through the Wilds of Strategic Management by Henry Mintzberg
The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage by Roger Martin
Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows

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