{"id":169,"date":"2006-07-21T11:27:07","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T10:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coding.mu\/archives\/2006\/07\/21\/three-golden-rules-to-tackle-complexity\/"},"modified":"2020-08-30T22:20:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T21:20:04","slug":"three-golden-rules-to-tackle-complexity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/priscimon.net\/coding\/2006\/07\/21\/three-golden-rules-to-tackle-complexity\/","title":{"rendered":"Three golden rules to tackle complexity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Newing, the IT director of Camelot, shares <a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/feature\/The-simple-way-to-tackle-complexity\">three golden rules to manage complexity in IT projects<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Think of a collection of simple solutions instead of one complex project.<\/li><li>Manage outside the &#8216;business as usual&#8217;. In other words, set up a different structure so that the project team is not distracted by the normal business.<\/li><li>Give people a good reason to complete the project. This is not the same as motivating them to make the project a success; instead the objective is to convince them to finish the project when it is time to do so in order to avoid feature creep.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Newing, the IT director of Camelot, shares three golden rules to manage complexity in IT projects. Think of a collection of simple solutions instead of one complex project. Manage outside the &#8216;business as usual&#8217;. In other words, set up a different structure so that the project team is not distracted by the normal business. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3I4g9-2J","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.net\/coding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.net\/coding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.net\/coding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.net\/coding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.net\/coding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.net\/coding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.net\/coding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.net\/coding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.net\/coding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priscimon.net\/coding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}