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Thinking in Promises: Designing Systems for Cooperation

Paperback • 2015 • English

Thinking in Promises: Designing Systems for Cooperation

By Mark Burgess

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About the book

Imagine a set of simple principles that could help you to understand how parts combine to become a whole, and how each part sees the whole from its own perspective. If such principles were any good, it shouldn't matter whether we're talking about humans on a team, birds in a flock, computers in a datacenter, or cogs in a Swiss watch. A theory of cooperation ought to be pretty universal, so we could apply it both to technology and to the workplace. Such principles are the subject of Promise Theor...Show more

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ISBN

9781491917879

Publisher

O'Reilly Media, Inc, USA

Published year

2015

Language

English

Original title

Thinking in Promises: Designing Systems for Cooperation

Format

Paperback

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