Chapter 9. Using Simulation and Modeling for Organizational Innovation
All models are wrong but some are useful.
—George E. F. Box
Men’s courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead. But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me.
—Ebenezer Scrooge
Modeling is the process of building a representation of how the world works. A model of the software development process can help to explain a portion of the process, but by its nature a model is incomplete and therefore incorrect. However, this does not mean that the model is not useful. It is sometimes difficult to focus on the usefulness of the model rather than its limitations. Nevertheless, the aversion that ...
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