Rethinking-IT

Simplify! - Part 4

The different types of accidental complexity

Uwe Friedrichsen

15 minute read

A wave machine and a pastis jug (seen in a shop window in Stockholm, Sweden)

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.