A Few Words About Complexity

Kevin R. Lowell

Chapter 2 in Leading Modern Technology Teams in Complex Times, 2023, pp 5-10 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Complexity. The world we live in today is complex. The world yesterday, to the people who lived yesterday, was also complex. Tomorrow will be complex, and so will the day after that. The world has been, continues to be, and always will be complex. Our challenges are as vexing to us as the challenges of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries were to the people who lived and worked and lived and died in those days gone by. What distinguishes today from earlier eras is not that we live in times that are more complex; rather, we live in times that are differently complex. Our challenge as leaders of modern technology teams is not one of facing complexity for the first time. Our challenge is that the way work gets done today is differently complex than the way work used to get done. The way work gets done today can be complex; agile software development is differently complex. And different challenges require different leadership.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-36429-7_2

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