Evidence

Format Online paper / PDF

"Software development projects face multiple forms of uncertainty, including requirement, technical, human-related, management, environmental, and professional uncertainty."

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Source title Uncertainty in Software Development Projects: A Review of Causes, Types, Challenges, and Future Research Directions

Source authors Mingqi Zhang; Maxwell Fordjour Antwi-Afari; Chonghui Wang; Weihao Sun; Saeed Reza Mohandes; Sulemana Fatoama Abdulai

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"Kent Beck and Gergely Orosz argue that effort and output are easier to measure than downstream outcomes and impact, where individual attribution becomes much harder."

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Source title Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey

Source authors Kent Beck; Gergely Orosz

Source year 2023

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Developer productivity cannot be represented by a single metric or by activity data alone."

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Source title The SPACE of Developer Productivity: There’s more to it than you think

Source authors Nicole Forsgren; Margaret-Anne Storey; Chandra Maddila; Tom Zimmermann; Brian Houck; Jenna Butler

Source year 2021

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Business process management methods contribute to process performance indirectly through organizational culture rather than through method application alone."

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Source title The relation between BPM culture, BPM methods, and process performance: Evidence from quantitative field studies

Source authors Theresa Schmiedel; Jan Recker; Jan vom Brocke

Source year 2020

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Techno-solutionism describes a technology-driven approach to social problems and is especially relevant when complex social problems are reframed as engineering challenges."

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Source title Technological Remedies for Social Problems: Defining and Demarcating Techno-Fixes and Techno-Solutionism

Source authors Henrik Skaug Sætra; Evan Selinger

Source year 2024

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Technological determinism is a family of claims that gives greater weight to technology’s autonomous and society-shaping tendencies rather than always claiming that technology alone determines social change."

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Source title On Technological Determinism: A Typology, Scope Conditions, and a Mechanism

Source authors Allan Dafoe

Source year 2015

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Toyota’s supermarket method introduced in 1954 evolved into the Kanban System and then Just-in-Time production."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS The Process Tzars

Source title TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION GLOBAL WEBSITE | 75 Years of TOYOTA | Part1 Chapter2 Section7 | Item 4. Supermarket Method

Source authors Toyota Motor Corporation

Source year 1954

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"Daily incremental kaizen is an explicit part of the Toyota Production System."

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Source title Toyota Production System | Vision & Philosophy | Company | Toyota Motor Corporation Official Global Website

Source authors Toyota Motor Corporation

Source year 2006

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"Egyptian pyramid construction dates back to around 2780 BCE."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS The Process Tzars

Source title The Egyptian Pyramid

Source authors Smithsonian Institution

Source year 2005

Confidence high

Importance low

Format Web Page

"In his 1995 Lost Interview, Steve Jobs argued that companies can confuse institutionalized process with product content. + Monopolistic technology companies can push product people out of decision-making."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS The Process Tzars

Source title Steve Jobs The Lost Interview 1995 - Full Transcript and Highlights

Source authors Sameer Bajaj

Source year 1995

Confidence high

Importance mid