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There is a kind of process that I think is worth it: a group protocol on how we do things that allows you to walk into a situation and understand what’s being done and how to proceed without needlessly needing to talk to others that where involved before you.

* The documentation will be here and look like this.

* The deployment is done using code that lives here.

* The code would have been in a PR here.

Etc.



People need to internalize that more. The gut-check reaction from most people is that process = overhead. It may be true that it creates that from time to time, but essentially a process should help align, remove confusion, maintain flow, and open up organizational capacity to do higher-level and more impactful work.


Because for most big organizations:

Help align -> More meetings

Remove confusion -> More meetings

Maintain flow -> More meetings

Open up organizational capacity -> Meetings about having less meetings




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