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              Sterman System Dynamics Modeling Oath - 5 April 2014

 

"I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those SD modelers in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.

I will apply, for the benefit of the research community and the society at large, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of over-modeling and modelistic nihilism.

I will remember that there is art to SD modeling as well as science, and that understanding of the problem may outweigh the model's detail or the archetype's simplicity.

I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a model's improvement.

I will respect the privacy of my clients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of model boundaries and model details. If it is given me to improve the understanding of a problem, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to complicate the life of my client; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. So Help Me God."

April 5, 2014

Yeditepe University

Department of Business Administration

Graduate students of M. Atilla Öner taking the Sterman Oath!

Nursel Babacan

Benyamin Benlioğlu

Çağlar Gülşeni

Murat Dinçer

Kimden: John Sterman [jsterman@MIT.EDU]
Tarih: 06 Nisan 2014 Pazar 22:19
Kime: M. Atilla Oner
Bilgi: İmTeS
Konu: Re: Sterman System Dynamics Modeling Oath

Thanks! I appreciate the sincerity of the oath — would be a much better world if all modelers adhered to it.

Very best
John

John Sterman

Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management
Director, MIT System Dynamics Group
MIT Sloan School of Management
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