Process Is A Good Thing
(Yeah, the above image is about The Landing on the Hudson . We’ll get to that in a bit) How many times have you heard people complain about Process , about how it “stifles my creativity” , “ it’s always getting in the way ” and, “if it weren’t for the process I’d be Getting Things Done” ? Don’t get me wrong — I agree that if it’s a bad process, and if it’s implemented poorly, and if the reasons are long since dust in the wind, then , yeah, it’s a Bad Thing. But, then again, there are a lot of “ if ”s in that statement. And the reality is that most of the time, the thing that annoys people isn’t The Process in general, but the specifics of the process as it applies to their very unique needs . • Alice doesn’t like having the standup at 8:30am because, well, who is actually sentient at 8:30am? • Bob is fine with the standup, but doesn’t like having to tag every commit with a ticket no. • Caro...