CHAPTER 17

Evolving the SAM as a Whole

Evolving the SAM is the heart of the emergent approach. Here you abandon completely any reliance on sequence. Instead, let the creative tension caused by the discipline of the method tell you where to go. Revisit Chapter 2: creativity emerges from internalization. Internalization comes from the disciplined application of low-level stressors to an evolving entity to see how it responds, enabling the elimination of what is unfit. At this point, the evolving entity is the SAM.

The chances of having drafted a fit-enough SAM with a compelling-enough alternative in Task Sets 2 and 3 is effectively zero. There will be unfit gaps and contradictions in many forms: missing assessments, framework and fitness criteria ...

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