Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Complexity of systems


The more systems built and integrated the more complex they are - the more they cost to maintain - the more difficult it is to modify - the more likely they will break - the more time spent explaining why not. Here's a good article about Enterprise Software:
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/smr/issue/2007/fall/01/
what to do - what to do.........if living 'things' are more complex then any system - how do they stop from 'breaking'? change to the surrounding environment? Perhaps they don't...

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