Symmathesy in Programming

Jessica Kerr says, There’s something extra special about development teams: software is the most malleable material we’ve ever used in engineering, by thousands of times. There’s nothing else like it, and this changes the meaning of “team.” medium d

Systems thinking says, we are more than the components; we are also the interrelationships. Agile recognizes that these matter. But there’s more! Each member of a team learns every day. Our environment learns and adapts too, because we change it. Nora Bateson gave a word to this, something deeper than any mechanical or model-able system, a learning system composed of learning parts: Symmathesy (sim-MATH-uh-see).

Kerr's post is a big bundle of analogies that all tell the same story: ideas compound within communities that help their members understand and enlarge them.

See Collaborative Automation