[DSRP Evidence](https://dsrpevidence.org/)

# Derek Cabrera's Systems Thinking Made Simple: A Four-Step Framework for Structuring Any Workflow

Kanban Zone Blog, 2025, Kanban Zone Blog — Business & Management

Patterns: [Distinctions](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/distinctions), [Systems](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/systems), [Relationships](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/relationships), [Perspectives](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/perspectives)

## In short

Explains and applies DSRP as a practical four-step method for structuring work and Kanban-style workflows, teaching each pattern to a practitioner audience.

## What they found (results)

DSRP is offered as a practical model for structuring thinking and thereby improving workflow and decision-making, with the company's own software positioned as a way to operationalize it.

## What they set out to do (purpose)

A vendor blog post from Kanban Zone, a workflow-management software company, presenting Cabrera's framework as a way to structure team workflows.

These researchers were not testing DSRP. The finding is theirs; the correspondence to DSRP is drawn by this site.

[Source](https://kanbanzone.com/2025/systems-thinking-made-simple-four-step-framework-for-structuring-any-workflow/)