If you look at Wikileaks theory of change articulated in the papers State and Government Conspiracies and Conspiracy as Governance that’s not exact backwards planning. There no specific plan with multiple steps.
There a belief that a specific mechanism is a lever that brings change.
My recent write-up for Prediciton-based medicine also articulates a theory of change but traditional backward planning doesn’t lead to a framework like this.
If you look at Aaron Schwartz as a result of thinking about his theory of change, he thought that having a good public conversation is important. That lead him to be involved in developing RSS, Markdown and Creative Commons. He was at the head of Reddit. He did also a lot of other influential stuff. His Wikipedia page is a good read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
Developing RSS will have many unforseen consequences and it’s not necessary to know all steps the way you would in traditional backward planning.
I don’t think it’s necessarily the same thing.
If you look at Wikileaks theory of change articulated in the papers State and Government Conspiracies and Conspiracy as Governance that’s not exact backwards planning. There no specific plan with multiple steps. There a belief that a specific mechanism is a lever that brings change.
My recent write-up for Prediciton-based medicine also articulates a theory of change but traditional backward planning doesn’t lead to a framework like this.
If you look at Aaron Schwartz as a result of thinking about his theory of change, he thought that having a good public conversation is important. That lead him to be involved in developing RSS, Markdown and Creative Commons. He was at the head of Reddit. He did also a lot of other influential stuff. His Wikipedia page is a good read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz Developing RSS will have many unforseen consequences and it’s not necessary to know all steps the way you would in traditional backward planning.