{"product_id":"thinking-in-promises-designing-systems-for-cooperation-9781491917879","title":"Thinking in Promises: Designing Systems for Cooperation","description":"\u003cp\u003eImagine 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 should be able to apply it both to technology and to the workplace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuch principles are the subject of Promise Theory, and the focus of this insightful book. The goal of Promise Theory is to reveal the behavior of a whole from the sum of its parts, taking the viewpoint of the parts rather than the whole. In other words, it is a bottom-up, constructionist view of the world. Start \u003ci\u003eThinking in Promises\u003c\/i\u003e and find out why this discipline works for documenting system behaviors from the bottom-up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e O'Reilly Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/17\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781491917879\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d","brand":"Mark Burgess","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36653561970844,"sku":"9781491917879","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_49b9ca23-525f-41d6-85ad-1cf5d290f67f.jpg?v=1603881930","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/thinking-in-promises-designing-systems-for-cooperation-9781491917879","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}