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Why software ends up complex · Alex Gaynor
Whenever you hear of a new IT project starting up with a large budget, teams of tens or hundreds of people, and a timeline of many months before something actually gets shipped, you can expect the project will go over time and budget and not deliver the expected value.
Joanne Molesky • Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale
Consider the cascade of specialized productivity apps (not suites) over the years, like Evernote, Wunderlist, Any.do, Todoist, Trello, Clubhouse, Basecamp, and the list goes on. Many of these are stable businesses, but they all claim a small piece of a large pie (and one could argue, were not great VC investments from a multiples perspective). The ... See more
Scott Belsky • Scott Belsky - On Tech/Product, Creativity, & Making Ideas Happen - Issue #9
Adding complexity also means you’re building a massive legacy of code that makes your product more expensive to maintain, which also makes it hard to react to changes in the market.