The Complexity Spectrum

Living successfully in a world of complex systems means expanding not only time horizons and thought horizons; above all, it means expanding the horizons of caring.

a “Tragedy of the Commons” issue, the system is sending you a signal that you cannot solve the problem or your own, in isolation from your fellow competitors, users, or consumers. Typically this signal comes in the form of increased difficulty in getting your share of the common resource. Sometimes you can recognize it by your feeling of powerlessn

The research for the State of DevOps Reports from 2013 to 2019 was a cross-population study that spanned over thirty-six thousand respondents over six years. It showed that architecture determined if it was possible for teams to:58 •make large-scale changes to the design of the system without the permission of someone outside the team or depending

The answer lies in the same reason that sophisticated tools of forecasting and business analysis, as well as elegant strategic plans, usually fail to produce dramatic breakthroughs in managing a business. They are all designed to handle the sort of complexity in which there are many variables: detail complexity. But there is a second type of comple