This article is part of a series about complexity metrics: Measuring complexity What Metrics to Use? The Impact of the Environment The alarm rings suddenly and intensely, waking you up from the food coma you were getting into. Red lights are on, sign of a major crisis. What an idea to eat a massive burger on a release day! Everybody’s running in every direction, but nobody seems to go anywhere. Developers begin to type frenetically some nonsense in their terminals.