Confusing the Map with the Territory in Software Development

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Hi, author here.

This is a page from the Risk-First project, which has had some interest on HN before. This page is about the mistakes we make within development teams confusing our internal mental model of the world with reality.

I hope it's of interest. Feel free to ask anything.

I'm not sure I understand the point of this article, other than to say - in a long-winded way - that sometimes people are wrong.

That could be the TL;DR, I guess.

Also, machines, agents, processes, organisations, whole markets... any time we have an information-based model of the world which we use to interact with reality.

As a whole, I am trying to categorise different risks that we face on software projects, and explain why they are there.

Map and Territory Risk being one of them.

Discussed a bit a few weeks back on HN, perhaps?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19084102

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