Episode 77 – Order Versus Overhead

Episode 77 - Order Versus Overhead

Have you stopped to look at the things you do, and questioned the value they add – or subtract – to your ability to achieve?

  • Process is neither good nor bad, but process almost never concerns itself with performance; rather, order, certainty and safety
  • All process has some overhead, and the overhead is more costly when the activity being modelled is simple. For the most part, processes have to be engineered to be scalable.
  • Agile is in many ways the antithesis of process, so be especially wary of complex processes that are “needed” in order to implement or execute Agile