Simplify! - Part 1

IT of today becoming indispensable and unmanageable

Uwe Friedrichsen

14 minute read

Two trees on a meadow

This little post series will be a bit different from the former ones as it discusses a relatively new train of thought of mine. Hence, in some places the reasoning may still feel a bit rough and not as thought out as in prior posts. If you should encounter such a place, please bear with me – and maybe help improving the reasoning via discussing the topic with me.

Acting under uncertainty

A general approach to respond to uncertainty

Uwe Friedrichsen

14 minute read

A black swan (seen in Stuttgart, Germany)

In the previous post, I introduced the concept of uncertainty as the unifying main driver of rethinking IT. I described how it breaks the certainty-based value prediction model that most of our acting (not only) in IT is based upon and why so many people and companies have difficulties to accept and adapt to uncertainty.

Understanding uncertainty

Why uncertainty changes everything

Uwe Friedrichsen

13 minute read

Elephant sculpture (seen in front of the Natural History Museum Vienna)

After a few posts discussing some aspects of software architecture, I would like to continue with the probably most important concept that I see in the world (not only) of IT today: uncertainty.