Complexity Cost
"Complexity creeps in over time." "My job is to help paint a picture people can understand."
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"Among the most dangerously unconsidered costs is what I've been calling complexity cost. Complexity cost is the debt you accrue by complicating features or technology in order to solve problems. An application that does twenty things is more difficult to refactor than an application that does one thing, so changes to its code will take longer. Sometimes complexity is a necessary cost, but only organizations that fully internalize the concept can hope to prevent runaway spending in this area."
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Footnotes
[7dd6d8] 2019, Feb. Jim Hacket. HBR The Costs of Complexity Are Hard to See
[b38daa] Kris Gale. First Round. The One Cost Engineers and Product Managers Don't Consider
[e8c7da] 2021, Apr 07. Bikramjit Chaudhury, Alessandro Faure Ragani, Ruth Heuss, and Thorsten Schleyer McKinsey, "Calculating complexity: Maximizing the value of customization"