Monday, September 14, 2009

The Answer to Complexity

This sounds trite, but long arguments with colleagues in IT have convinced me that this is anything but obvious and therefore needs to be explicitly stated.

Guys, the answer to complexity is not better tooling.

It's simplicity.

2 comments:

Script Uncle said...

YES! This is so true. I tried to get this across in my recent post on complexity, but you managed to say in a concise way. Essentially a meta-reference to the correct answer :)

http://unclescript.blogspot.com/2009/08/software-complexity-in-practice.html

Cheers,
PS

Ram Veeraraghavan said...

I do agree with you...

Hope you are monitoring your blood pressure!!! Chill out...