#fridaythinking is there a word for s/w engineering technique of lowering solution complexity, i.e. trimming entities, properties of these, branches, etc @KevlinHenney and colleagues cc:@stilkov @Grady_Booch @allenholub @jezhumble @swannodette @davefarley77 @mfeathers @pragdave?

What’s wrong with “simplification”?

You know how to trigger a contrarian 😉 I think that KISS made "simple" really bad PR. 🙄 Otherwise, it's perfect! I guess that why most enterprise-wide initiatives are called that.

I think you could argue that simplicity is the “-ility” that’s the hardest to achieve, but also the only one that makes all the others drastically easier

I think that the engineering approach is more about "managing complexity" than simplicity itself. I think that gives you a better steer to achieving a "simpler" result, and that is driven from a variety of properties modularity, cohesion etc and a key technique - 'Testability'.