Comments on: Emergent Requirements http://dustyvolumes.com/archives/605 Excerpts (with occassional commentary) from some lesser read works Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:10:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Donald Bosart http://dustyvolumes.com/archives/605/comment-page-1#comment-178 Donald Bosart Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:10:28 +0000 http://nothing.tmtm.com/?p=605#comment-178 This is akin to adaption to environmental changes in biological systems. If the changes are sufficiently slow then an organism can optimize to conserve energy and "optimize for efficiency"; however, in a rapidly changing environment, such overly "specialized" organisms fail to adapt and thus are ill suited to survive. However, a rapidly changing environment should not be looked on as some sort of virtue as it (as in biological systems) inherently is a destructive and often energy wasteful system that stresses the biological systems to the point often of temporary collapse. Too often rapid change is lauded by those who think it is more desirable than the other extreme, bureaucracy, standards, and process. The truth is such extremes are just that, extremes of the pendulum of what is perceived is "best practice". This is akin to adaption to environmental changes in biological systems. If the changes are sufficiently slow then an organism can optimize to conserve energy and “optimize for efficiency”; however, in a rapidly changing environment, such overly “specialized” organisms fail to adapt and thus are ill suited to survive.

However, a rapidly changing environment should not be looked on as some sort of virtue as it (as in biological systems) inherently is a destructive and often energy wasteful system that stresses the biological systems to the point often of temporary collapse.

Too often rapid change is lauded by those who think it is more desirable than the other extreme, bureaucracy, standards, and process. The truth is such extremes are just that, extremes of the pendulum of what is perceived is “best practice”.

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