1. A method for authoring a procedure associated with a computing system operation based on a complexity analysis associated with the operation and the computing system implementing the operation, comprising the steps of: generating the procedure associated with the computing system operation; extracting from the generated procedure a structured representation of the generated procedure, the structured representation being an annotated document documenting the overall workflow of the generated procedure and comprising one or more workflow elements of the generated procedure and one or more documentation elements of the generated procedure; and analyzing the structured representation of the generated procedure to produce complexity analysis results, wherein at least a portion of the complexity analysis results are provided to a procedure designer for use in selectively altering the generated procedure; wherein the steps are performed at least in part by a processor.