http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:39:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2011/03/introducing-levelized-structure-maps-lsm/ http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2011/03/introducing-levelized-structure-maps-lsm/#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:38:09 +0000 Chris Chedgey http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/?p=455 dzone_url = "http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2011/03/introducing-levelized-structure-maps-lsm/";Levelized Structure Maps (LSM) are a new, intuitive way to visualize and manipulate software systems. Using LSM, large-scale refactoring to remove dependency tangles and other over-complexity, becomes second nature. LSM are the core of Restructure101. Items in the LSM are levelized … Continue reading]]> http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2011/03/introducing-levelized-structure-maps-lsm/feed/ 0 http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2009/03/holarchy-101/ http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2009/03/holarchy-101/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:39:35 +0000 Ian Sutton http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/?p=212 dzone_url = "http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2009/03/holarchy-101/";Herbert Simon’s parable of the watchmakers was constructed to convey his belief that complex systems will evolve from simple systems much more rapidly if there are stable intermediate forms present in that evolutionary process than if they are not present. … Continue reading]]> http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2009/03/holarchy-101/feed/ 1 http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2009/03/watchmakers-parable/ http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2009/03/watchmakers-parable/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:14:49 +0000 Ian Sutton http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/?p=208 dzone_url = "http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2009/03/watchmakers-parable/";The parable of the two watchmakers was introduced by Nobel Prize winner Herbert Simon to describe the complex relationship of subsystems and their larger wholes. There once were two watchmakers, named Hora and Tempus, who made very fine watches. The … Continue reading]]> http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2009/03/watchmakers-parable/feed/ 1 http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2007/08/beautiful-structure/ http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2007/08/beautiful-structure/#comments Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:45:16 +0000 Chris Chedgey http://headway.structure101.com/blog/?p=14 dzone_url = "http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2007/08/beautiful-structure/";In response to O’Reilly’s just-published Beautiful Code, Johnathan Edwards explains why he couldn’t go along with the premise. One sentence in his excellent piece stood out for me: “The human mind can not grasp the complexity of a moderately sized … Continue reading]]> http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2007/08/beautiful-structure/feed/ 1 http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/11/devx-review-of-structure101/ http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/11/devx-review-of-structure101/#comments Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:54:33 +0000 Chris Chedgey http://headway.structure101.com/blog/?p=23 Continue reading]]> http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/11/devx-review-of-structure101/feed/ 2 http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/10/complexity-debt-dont-fix-it-keep-a-lid-on-it/ http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/10/complexity-debt-dont-fix-it-keep-a-lid-on-it/#comments Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:55:31 +0000 Chris Chedgey http://headway.structure101.com/blog/?p=24 dzone_url = "http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/10/complexity-debt-dont-fix-it-keep-a-lid-on-it/";So you just discovered that your code-base has racked up a whole load of complexity debt. This  maybe explains why progress seems so painfully slow lately. You briefly think of suggesting a major complexity-reducing refactoring effort. This will delay the … Continue reading]]> http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/10/complexity-debt-dont-fix-it-keep-a-lid-on-it/feed/ 2 http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/10/structure101-v2-goes-ga-today/ http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/10/structure101-v2-goes-ga-today/#comments Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:09:18 +0000 Chris Chedgey http://headway.structure101.com/blog/?p=25 Continue reading]]> http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/10/structure101-v2-goes-ga-today/feed/ 0 http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/09/spring-2s-architecture-a-single-dependency-cycle-slipped-in/ http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/09/spring-2s-architecture-a-single-dependency-cycle-slipped-in/#comments Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:59:03 +0000 Chris Chedgey http://headway.structure101.com/blog/?p=28 dzone_url = "http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/09/spring-2s-architecture-a-single-dependency-cycle-slipped-in/";The Spring guys have let a single dependency cycle into their architecture. A very small flaw, but it’s a perfect example of why you need to check your code-base at different levels to keep it truly tangle-free. I did a … Continue reading]]> http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/09/spring-2s-architecture-a-single-dependency-cycle-slipped-in/feed/ 0 http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/09/tracking-complexity-debt/ http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/09/tracking-complexity-debt/#comments Wed, 13 Sep 2006 07:07:26 +0000 Chris Chedgey http://headway.structure101.com/blog/2006/09/tracking-complexity-debt/ dzone_url = "http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/09/tracking-complexity-debt/";Un-monitored, the complexity of a code-base increases with its size. Jboss and Struts are perfect examples. However monitoring complexity helps you keep complexity debt under control, or even down to zero. If you publish the last couple of years worth … Continue reading]]> http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/09/tracking-complexity-debt/feed/ 0 http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/09/manage-complexity-like-debt/ http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/09/manage-complexity-like-debt/#comments Thu, 07 Sep 2006 06:26:00 +0000 Chris Chedgey http://headway.structure101.com/blog/2006/09/manage-complexity-like-debt/ dzone_url = "http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/09/manage-complexity-like-debt/";Ben Hosking writes in Managing Complexity – The aim of Designing Code that: “The most important part of design is managing complexity“ I like the simplicity of that. What happens if you don’t manage complexity. Well, it starts to cost. … Continue reading]]> http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/2006/09/manage-complexity-like-debt/feed/ 3