Let’s not demonise complexity

When I first saw this image, I smiled a little and thought wow they are trying to say complexity is BAD. To many organisations’ complexity IS BAD mostly because they want to have a lower skilled workforce… Well, it seems that way at least.

I was talking with someone the other day who was lamenting that “FIM 2010 was ridiculously hard, kind of like SCCM”. I wrote this back in 2012 so it’s likely, I’ve changed my mind on absolutely everything.

I don’t want to rant about IT Generalists expecting to be able to just pick up the DVD and go with many Microsoft Technologies but will say I’m coming up on my third attempt at passing the FIM 2010 Technology Specialist Exam and it is NOT an easy product BUT I didn’t expect it would be … I never did go back to that exam.

I want to spend some time talking about complex products that make the Business of IT and the Business of Business easier or how Complexity can be your friend. In other words, STOP defining solutions that are easy for IT and super hard for the Business, the environments you feed, and water are not for you!! There I said it.

So, I’m keen to relearn my FIM 2010 mojo by building a solution but also because I’m an Infrastructure guy not an application developer, I’m keen to build it code free except for some PowerShell. Time has marched on since 2012 and there are lots of ways to do what FIM did some of them Really Amazing.