IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/fuobcp/978-3-031-36429-7_2.html

A Few Words About Complexity

In: Leading Modern Technology Teams in Complex Times

Author

Listed:
  • Kevin R. Lowell

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.

Suggested Citation

Handle: RePEc:spr:fuobcp:978-3-031-36429-7_2
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-36429-7_2
as

Download full text from publisher

To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
3. Perform a
for a similarly titled item that would be available.

More about this item

Statistics

Access and download statistics

Corrections

All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:fuobcp:978-3-031-36429-7_2. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.