Complexity within the Project

The extent to which the same or similar objects have been realised (with an allowance for the success of the realisations). This is particularly important when it comes to the host of issues related to community acceptance. 

The same coordinates are involved in assessing project risk, but complexity and risk are by no means identical. If risk is defined as the probability of failing to meet the performance requirements within the given time and budget constraints, multiplied by a measure of the consequences of that failure, then risk is clearly dependent on those two constraints (as is easily seen by the fact that if the budget and timeframe both go to infinity, the risk goes to zero, no matter how complex the project is). But furthermore, the risk is also dependent on the particular manner in which it is proposed to carry out the project, i.e. on the Project Plan, as will be discussed in the next section. 

By existing in items 1 and 3 above we should understand available to the project . Both domain knowledge and technology may or may not be available within the initial project organisation, but if it exists and can be made available, it is simply a matter of the cost (and possibly the time frame) involved, which brings us to the complexity within the project, i.e. to the complexity of the work. 

Weaver, W. There is a large literature on the subject of complexity, for example. Science and Complexity 36, 536-544 (1948) Flood, R. L., Carson, E. R. Dealing with complexity An introduction to the theory and application of systems science, 2nd edn. Plenum Press, New York (1993) Sheard, S.A., Mostashari, A. A Complexity Typology for Systems Engineering. In Proc. 20 Int l Symposium of INCOSE, Chicago, Illinois (2010) 

Miller, G.A. The Magical Number Seven, Plus of Minus Two Some limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information. The Psychological Review 63, 81-97 (1956) available online at, http //www.well.com/user/smalin/miller.htinl References to subsequent papers can be found at, 

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