{"product_id":"9781491918487","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","brand":"O'Reilly Media, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47169814626544,"sku":"9781491918487","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781491918487_p0.jpg?v=1763662033","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781491918487","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}