Smart Era Software Development

Feb 6, 2023 · R&D Management

Battling Software Scale and Complexity: Rescue, Cure, and Maintenance (Part 1)

The article examines why software development, despite modern tooling, still behaves like a handicraft that collapses under scale, explains essential versus accidental complexity, illustrates common sources of random complexity with real cases, and proposes a three‑step strategy—rescue, cure, and maintenance—to control growth.