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Rowan Molony's avatar

This is just a fantastic historical summary!

It reminds me of Simon Wardleys component evolution cycles in which all products evolve over time from Genesis to Custom Built to Product to Commodity & the tools required for each stage differ - https://medium.com/wardleymaps/finding-a-path-cdb1249078c0

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Scott Werner's avatar

Ooh you're exactly right! I've been thinking about this for a while but hadn't made the connection to the stuff I'd read from Simon Wardley....going to have to dig into this and some of his other stuff through this lens :)

Thank you!

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