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Peak Complexity

· Simon Eskildsen · Feb. 2, 2018, midnight

Summary

With the teams I work with, we operate with the idea of peak complexity: the time at which a project reaches its highest complexity. Peak complexity has proved a useful mental model to us for reasoning about complexity. It helps inform decisio...

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