Friday, January 2, 2015

What – What is Chunking

Chunking is a simplification strategy.   We can chunk down or chunk up.

Chunking down decomposes complex things into simpler things; big into small; whole into parts; components into sub-components; assemblies into sub-assemblies; systems into sub-systems; etc.

Chunking up works in the reverse direction by combining smaller parts into bigger ones, and so forth.

Chunking is reiterative, recursive, and incremental.  But at each stage the chunks are different, so it is like a fractal.


DONE.