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The software community is undergoing unprecedented rates of change today. The most successful software companies must learn to adapt quickly to changing environments. Our current mechanistic worldview, the basis for most of our software development processes, is no longer adequate. In Discovering System Dynamics in Software Engineering, Jim Hart articulates a different worldview, where software leaders and managers see their companies as dynamic, interconnected living systems. With nearly 100 figures, dozens of real-world software engineering situations, and two chapters dedicated to illustrating a detailed method, the author explains step-by-step how to apply causal loop diagramming to solve complex, persistent problems in today's software companies that seem unsolvable using traditional techniques. The many exercises and Further Reading sections encourage individuals and groups to further cultivate their collaborative systems thinking skills.

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A speaker at many US and international software conferences for nearly 20 years, Jim Hart is a successful quality and process consultant. As President of Software Process Dynamics LLC and U.S. director of RPI Alliance, Ltd., he has consulted with over 100 companies worldwide and of all sizes, and trained nearly 3000 executives, managers and engineers on team and organization development, organizational learning, business process engineering, process management, and process improvement. Jim, an SEI-qualified CMMI SCAMPI lead appraiser, has conducted more than 60 appraisals over the past 15 years. As a senior member of the technical staff at the Software Engineering Institute's Process Program from 1991-1997, he worked on the CMM for Software and developing many successful courses.

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