Archetypen
Wiederkehrende Muster komplexer Systemdynamik.
Guiding question: Which pattern keeps repeating despite local fixes?
Accidental Adversaries
Teams that actually want to collaborate drive each other into ruin through selfish local optimizations.
Attractiveness Principle
A rising product or team attracts so much demand that quality collapses and the very source of its attractiveness gets damaged.
Balancing Process with Delay
Ignorance about delayed feedback causes actors to overcorrect wildly and destabilize the system.
Drifting Goals
Teams gradually adapt their standards to insufficient system behavior instead of improving the causes of that behavior.
Eroding Goals
A variant of gradual surrender: instead of responding radically to structural problems, people talk themselves into accepting a miserable architecture.
Escalation
Two parties respond to each other with increasingly strong measures because each side wants to outdo or protect itself from the other.
Fixes That Fail
A quick remedy eases the acute symptom immediately, but it triggers hidden side effects that return in the medium or long term.
Growth and Underinvestment
A growing environment withers because investment in core capacity is delayed until it is too late.
Limits to Growth
Growth in real systems eventually meets limiting resources. The important work is to recognize that limit early and either expand capacity or adjust ambition.
Shifting the Burden to the Intervenor
Teams become dependent on an external helper, which causes their own ability to solve architectural problems to atrophy.
Shifting the Burden
Teams repeatedly relieve symptoms in the short term and gradually lose the motivation and capability to address the structural architecture problem.
Success to the Successful
Competition for limited resources can further favor teams with a slight head start while others receive fewer development opportunities despite their potential.
Tragedy of the Commons
Locally reasonable use of a shared resource can overload the whole system when access rules, cost transparency, and responsibility are missing.