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David, My thought is that TRIZ would be a more effective tool (than SD) for your purpose. ("TIPS" is the acronym for "Theory of Inventive Problem Solving," and "TRIZ" is the acronym for the same phrase in Russian. TRIZ was developed by Genrich Altshuller and his colleag...

If you are going to create models of chemical reactions, it might be useful to learn a little bit about chemistry first. There is no such thing as an "atom of water." Water (H2O) is a molecule, not an atom. In your reaction, 300 atoms (of hydrogen and oxygen) combine into 100 molecules (of...

SD is not applicable to this domain, because its primary focus is quantitative, whereas the primary focus of UML and BON is qualitative. As others have mentioned, there is some literature on the application of SD to project management issues in software development. But there is none on the applicat...

I fear that the real picture is actually rather more bleak than that painted by Repenning and Sterman ("Nobody Ever Gets Credit ..."). In particular, their CLDs in Figures 1-5 assert that "Time Spent Working" has a positive (+) polarity to "Actual Performance." In my ex...

On 20 Nov 2001, at 19:10, daniel.jarosch@au.pwcglobal.c wrote: >I hope my issue is not too basic, but I do have question that has been > spinning in mind for a while. > Basically it is: How can we qualitatively uncover causation? Let me translate: "How should a scientist form hypotheses?" ...

Alan Graham identifies certification policies in various occupations. It should be pointed out that, in some fields (especially medicine and law), practitioners must be not certified, but licensed. This is an entirely different concept. Certification is voluntary, whereas licensing is compulsory, an...

The key point to understand is that what happened here in California was not, repeat, not, a "deregulation" of the market for electricity. Persons who use that term to describe it are at best ignorant and at worst disingenuous. What happened was a restructuring (as in the Russian term, &qu...

On 4 Jun 2001, at 7:58, Bill Braun wrote, in part: > Id like to know where I am deficient and continue to hone my skills > in those areas. Individual certification would address a good part of that. Not necessarily. Every certification process I know of relies solely on the infamous multiple-choice ...

My belief is that System Dynamics should be very useful here, as many of the arguments in favor of abrogating, or refusing to recognize in the first place, property rights, simply ignore secondary (not to mention tertiary, etc.) effects. If you arent aware of it already, please see: "The Nobles...

Sharadha,

Please see the work of Dr. Ray Madachy on the software
engineering process, in general (not specific to maintenance).

http://sunset.usc.edu/people
ay/spd/


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