Finding the Goldilocks Zone: Just the right amount of process
People ask me about processes all the time. Planning processes, performance review processes, OKRs, et cetera. I think it’s because I was once a COO and people have this vision of COOs as process fiends. People who make the trains run on time. People with lots of Gantt charts all around them. I have nothing against process.1 But I think start... See more
rkg.blog • Desperation-Induced Focus
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Knowing how to respect process while not letting it inhibit progress is one of the holy grails of management. Introduce process to counter misalignments only as they emerge.
Scott Belsky • The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture
CREATING THE SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES
reforge.com • Crossing the Canyon: Product Manager to Product Leader — Reforge
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Process and Process Improvement Good process and continually improving process are admirable goals. They are also very natural goals: good technical workers will focus on them whether you tell them to or not. Formal process improvement programs costs time and money: a given process improvement effort may well set project work back. Even if producti
... See moreTom DeMarco • The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management
As Charles Betz, author of Architecture and Patterns for IT Service Management, Resource Planning, and Governance: Making Shoes for the Cobbler’s Children, says:4 Because it is the best-understood area of IT activity, the project phase is often optimized at the expense of the other process areas, and therefore at the expense of the entire value cha
... See moreJoanne Molesky • Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale
Having execution processes that discover and address issues quickly. This avoids having issues come up toward the end of a project that delay the project and tie up resources, holding up all other projects that were depending on those resources.
Gerald Kendall • Advanced Multi-Project Management: Achieving Outstanding Speed and Results with Predictability
Startups, being lean and mean, seem like the perfect place to eliminate documents, have no systems, and no processes…but that’s far from the truth. Without process it’s impossible to delegate, difficult to bring on a business partner, and easy to make mistakes. With processes in place it’s much easier to sell your product if/when you want to make a
... See moreRob Walling • Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
With the innovation of the org chart McCallum eased the tradeoff between scale and efficiency that many organizations face as they grow. This new ‘operating system’ for firms operates even more effectively in modern times by leveraging the internet, but the tradeoff between scale and efficiency has not gone away. Structures and processes that work ... See more
Omar Shams • The AI Organization, part I - by Omar Shams - mutable.ai
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