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by tbrownaw 4052 days ago
Software is hard, people are hard, so the idea should be to have as little process as possible. Most of it exists as arse-covering material anyway.

People are soft and squishy. Too much rigid process pevents taking advantage of that squishiness. A complete lack of process will result in those squishy humans just producing a gooey puddle.

For every piece of process:

  * what problem does it solve?
  * what side-effects does it have?
  * are the side-effects good or bad, and how much so?
  * are there alternative solutions with better side-effects?