The Art of Clean Code

1 How Complexity Harms Your Productivity

In this chapter, we’re going to have a comprehensive look at the important and highly underexplored topic of complexity. What exactly is complexity? Where does it occur? How does it damage your productivity? Complexity is the enemy of the lean and efficient organization and individual, so it’s worth taking a close look at all areas where we find complexity and what forms it takes. This chapter focuses on the problem—complexity—and the remaining chapters will explore effective methods to attack it by redirecting the released resources previously occupied by complexity.

Let’s start with a quick overview ...