I’m having trouble parsing what the Cloud of Doom is. It sounds similar to a wicked problem. Wicked problems come with the issue that there’s no clear best solution, which perhaps is true of Clouds of Doom as well. On the other hand, you make two claims about wicked problems:
Every organization doing real work has them
There’s one way to solve them, by adding lots of slack
I’m not sure where those are coming from, or what those imply. Examples or explanations would help.
Another thought: after the creation of vaccines, smallpox was arguably a “bug”. There’s a clear problem (people infected with a specific organism) and a clear solution (vaccinate a bunch of people and then check if it’s gone). It still took a long time and lots of effort. Perhaps I’m drawing the analogy farther than you meant it to imply. (Or perhaps “a bunch of people” is doing the heavy lifting here and in fact counts as many little problems.)
Interesting and elegant model!
I’m having trouble parsing what the Cloud of Doom is. It sounds similar to a wicked problem. Wicked problems come with the issue that there’s no clear best solution, which perhaps is true of Clouds of Doom as well. On the other hand, you make two claims about wicked problems:
Every organization doing real work has them
There’s one way to solve them, by adding lots of slack
I’m not sure where those are coming from, or what those imply. Examples or explanations would help.
Another thought: after the creation of vaccines, smallpox was arguably a “bug”. There’s a clear problem (people infected with a specific organism) and a clear solution (vaccinate a bunch of people and then check if it’s gone). It still took a long time and lots of effort. Perhaps I’m drawing the analogy farther than you meant it to imply. (Or perhaps “a bunch of people” is doing the heavy lifting here and in fact counts as many little problems.)