Thoughts on Process

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Nice post. What really bugs people about bad process isn't just that it's stifling ... but that it becomes a shield for marching forward on the wrong road. It systematically prevents people from asking "Why are we doing this?"

Startups need to ask that a lot. Big companies hardly ever ask it. So even though a judicious amount of process is necessary to Get Things Done, there needs to be some way (Friday all hands?) to ask: "Why are we doing this?"

I completely agree. Always ask why. I think retrospectives are a good weekly thing to do, but it's difficult to do retro's for company vision type stuff. Ultimately, I think this comes down to a leadership thing. What the company is doing, the "vision", must be evangelized and communicated constantly and thoroughly. With that in place, it makes trying to answer the "why" a little easier.

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