Stafford Beer describes the project team as hemostats, regulating their internal environment to maintain stability with discrete goals. Beer noted that two problems generally management, the "artful design of information flows - so that the firm could be quickly and adequately informed of what the outside world was actually doing" and "acting on those flows". The project manager's information flow is designed based on the base lined plan, while the project team's information flow is directly connected to their environment, in which they react in a manner similar to Beer's homeostasis: "always in the thick of things - responding ti changing inputs in real-time; reconfiguring themselves internally to change their outputs; monitoring what came back at them from the world". According to Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety, maintaining homeostasis is successful when the observers, either through flexibility, which effectively adapts to change, or by systemically reducing enough uncertainty(variety) within the complex system, are able to maintain or control it.