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Matt Micene is an evangelist for Linux and containers at Red Hat. He has over 15 years of experience in information technology, ranging from architecture and system design to data center design. He has a deep understanding of key technologies, such as containers, cloud computing and virtualization. His current focus is evangelizing Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and how the OS relates to the new age of compute environments. He's a strong advocate for open source software and has participated in a few projects. Always watching people, how and why decisions get made, he's never left his anthropology roots far behind.
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Understanding feedback loops is key to systems thinkings, and systems thinking is key to learning organizations. I've just about finished the new edition of "The Fifth Discipline" by Peter Senge, and the same sort of feedback diagrams are all through out.
One of the other things that making the loops real (i.e. drawing them) is you can uncover links to other processes that influence your loop without your explicit understanding. There's a great example in the book that talks about two vehicle engineering teams whose changes were affecting the other teams goals, but neither team knew it until someone else pointed it out.
@crowsfly: Boyd's OODA loop is one of my favorite constructs. Better than Deming Cycles :) Orient -> Observe -> Decide -> Act, short circuted at any point, success comes from executing "inside" the time the opposition takes to complete a cycle. Highly applicable to software building.
I like using the big laptop skin stickers as a base, then I can hang the old one on the cube wall when I decide to change them out. Maybe there aught to be some OpensourceWay skins in the offing.