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Decisions are costly, and things that reduce the number of decisions you have to make can be useful in moving work forward and making you more productive. Out a
by oddlyaromatic 10y ago
Decisions are costly, and things that reduce the number of decisions you have to make can be useful in moving work forward and making you more productive. Out at least making you feel productive. It's obviously not a great idea to follow one paradigm always, whether it's appropriate or not. But I think it's attractive for the reason you mention. We can't reason about every little thing all day long, so rubrics that come from trusted experts both reduce cognitive overhead and make us feel like we have "borrowed" somebody else's expertise.
- maxxxxx 10y agoI can see the benefits of reducing decision time. But I have seen it many times that you start with some paradigm which at the beginning is useful. But over time you discover more and more conditions where it doesn't work well anymore. Instead of reevaluating the situation a lot of people just stick to the paradigm although it's obviously not useful anymore. I see that a lot with scrum people where the answer is often "you are doing it wrong" but they are not able to answer the question how to do it right.
- mi100hael 10y agoOn the flip side, I find having a system like Scrum is beneficial even when parts of it are being done wrong because it's still an agreed-upon system that the entire team adheres to. Having 5 or 10 people each going at things the way they see best based on their experiential understanding can lead to counterproductive chaos even if each individual's approach in a vacuum is sound.
- oddlyaromatic 10y agoIt's great when everybody can see through stuff like this and work with a coherent but imperfect approach (no matter what field you are in). I guess it takes knowledgeable, experienced folks to really understand the context and make the best tradeoffs, since no way of doing something is perfect for all applications.