Simplifying

As if on cue, the day I wrote to you that Simplicity is sophistication, a client reached out for advice on reducing complexity in their user permissioning model. Looking at it together, we saw pretty quickly that they could easily eliminate 14 user roles and over 22,000 inactive users from their system.

That’s over 3100 permission assignments they can now stop thinking about. And instead of managing over 22K users, they’ll have 12.

They’ve got that in the schedule for this week, and they're now on their way to a permissioning system that they can actually understand and manage.

So it’s worth asking:

What can you do to avoid excess complexity in your new projects? Or to streamline your existing systems so you can actually understand what's going on?

Whether da Vinci said it or not, simplicity really is the ultimate sophistication.

All the best,
A.