Ancestors

Written by Ruth Malan on 2025-02-03 at 14:16

Always grateful when people share this. And especially grateful when shared with kind words that help people see it!

Like, this is leadership! Self-serving to point out, but! When someone helps others see a minoritized person's work, they are leading:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andrewharmellaw_system-design-is-contextual-design-activity-7258930854272417793-u5iV

My work integrates and includes. And. What I do is more than a tapestry of other people's words and insights -- as important as that part of my work is.

PDF: https://www.ruthmalan.com/Bredemeyer/20241021SystemDesignIntro.pdf

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Written by Ruth Malan on 2025-02-03 at 14:23

Anyway, the PDF is free as in the only cost is the cost of attention (and trust in the download...). But the reward for that attention... is ... priceless??? (Rhetorical!)

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Toot

Written by Ruth Malan on 2025-02-03 at 14:25

Sidebar: Indies still gotta earn their way. So, be generous with discomfort at with the self-promo (from a woman, with hair the color of experience...), I guess??

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Descendants

Written by Ruth Malan on 2025-02-03 at 14:36

Even this slide, which is a roadmap to what follows (not in the pdf, but the context for it is set in the pdf), is a gift! It frames what we do as interrelating theories, that are elaborated -- and tested. It brings all of these veins of systems work together: strategy, product design and architecture (and all of their elaborations). It scaffolds the work we do, providing structure so that we can embrace the non-linear (feedback intensive) nature of (co-evolutionary) system design.

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