This is discussing some of the same subjects as Brooks' Mythical Man Month and related essays. Our solutions are made up of "pure thought stuff" and so can be

This is discussing some of the same subjects as Brooks' Mythical Man Month and related essays. Our solutions are made up of "pure thought stuff" and so can be organized in almost any possible way. We've found better ways to organize things over the years, and reduce incidental complexity too. We continue to chip away at small problems year after year. But, there's "no silver bullet," to give us a 10x improvement. Believe I agree with the piece that we have too many layers building up lately. Would like to see several of them squashed. :-D