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In the previous post of this series, we looked at post-industrial markets and digital transformation as external market-based drivers that create pressure on companies and their IT departments. We also have seen how not understanding these drivers usually leads to counter-productive responses that ultimately make things worse instead better.

In the previous post, we looked at the different types of accidental complexity that help us to identify the places where to look for unnecessary complexity.

I wanted to give you a short break from my “Simplify!” blog series. Well, admittedly, I also needed a little break … ;)

In the previous post, I discussed the difference between essential and accidental complexity. While we cannot avoid the essential complexity of a given problem, accidental complexity makes things unnecessarily harder without adding any value to the solution.

In the first post of this blog series, I described two antagonistic observations: IT has become an indispensable part of everyday business and private life while at the same time the complexity on the IT solution side grows all the time, meanwhile being on the verge of unmaintainability.