There are a few illegitimate reasons to dislike process.
Urgency: The problem you have now feels urgent, but what’s more important is a process that can help you solve the next 100 problems. The dividend on those far exceeds the dividend on solving the problem today, but being on different teams again with tomorrow’s problem.
Creativity: To many, process removes intuition. Interestingly, though, a moment of creativity can arrive at any time and, if it’s cunning enough, it will be applied. Even with process, no one says no to a remarkable idea (and if they do, you’re in the wrong place). After all, the process is meant to make creative ideas happen better and faster anyway. In fact, process is what will save your ass when intuition fails you.
It’s not broken: The current process may not be broken, so why talk about making process better? Because tomorrow’s problems won’t be the same as today’s and today you have dealt with different crap than you did yesterday. A process is really like a business plan for a certain type of service, and business plans are meant to be updated (made better) on a regular basis.
It’s for dummies: You have passion and an open mind and a determination to check a box, so you don’t need process, right? That’s for people who are not you. Being forward, I’m not sure I want to sell you out of this thought if you are thinking it in the first place. It’s less competition for those who know that process is what doubles efficiency when they’ve done everything they can think of.
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