The Challenge of Managing Complexity Software complexity grows faster than our ability to manage it. Businesses get more complex, so the software supporting them follows. Languages and tooling improve, but the underlying problem remains: every system eventually becomes harder to change than to replace. The Complexity Cycle Engineers try to manage complexity through diagrams, architecture documents, and visual representations. It helps for a while. Then the system outgrows the diagrams. A new team is brought in to redesign from scratch, and the cycle repeats. ...