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The M-CaReM-AI Method: Defining Work for AI / Unit 2   MCM 030 short lesson, about 20 seconds

Efficient Cause

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The idea

Efficient cause answers who and how: the agents and processes that bring a thing about.

In practice

For a system, that means product teams, developers, testers, vendors, pipelines, sprints and tickets: everything about how the work gets done.

Where people slip

The method calls efficient cause motion and material cause substance; flawless delivery can still build the wrong conceptual model.

Your place on the trail

Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.

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