Butterflies for IT Management

Another old idea come around again.  Can you use it for IT management?  Perhaps in a theoretical sense, but I am skeptical about its predictive power.  " ...  So far so good — but is it enough? Do we have enough of theoretical engine power to encapsulate the intricacies, complexities and unpredictability of a) software development and, perhaps more crucially b) those human beings who will work to produce it in real world humanoid scenarios. The answer is no, we need chaos theory too. ... " ... Chaos theory: the behaviour of dynamic systems is highly sensitive to initial conditions ...  .