[Josteniok]

[My colleague] would appear to see time spent in planning and writing documents as essentially wasted time, since he asserts that without process we are faster. We are not faster in reality. We are merely faster to say we're finished. That is not the same thing as actually being finished: we can all think of examples of that. And the uncertainty induced by the unknown magnitude of correction required is, IMHO, the biggest contribution to our inefficiency and ineffectiveness.

I've spent my entire career working for a medium sized organization and in the past few years it has tried to become "agile". Most of this push is predicated on the idea that we will be able to go faster this way. As a result we have deconstructed ourselves. What's weird is that now we aren't actually even "faster to say we are finished." No, now we are only faster to say that we are going to be faster to be finished. We still end up taking a long time but as long as the slide deck says we are going to be done in a short amount of time, then all is believed to be running smoothly. It's very strange/depressing/unsettling.