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Companies that rely on hallway conversation to make decisions are missing key processes. You should have been involved officially when the issue happened. Wha

• bluGill 9y ago
  This is wrong on many different levels. First of all, the guy doing the manual process didn't even realize that it was easy to automate. So he never would have invoke the processes. Even ignoring the above, the official process is by nature too heavy. It would cost over hundred man-hours by the time the proposal is written, put before a committee, acted on, the proper story wrote, and someone assigned to the write the code. In the mean time 6 months have passed and the first guy thus spent another 2 hours doing it manually. That is 100 hours on a manual process that ultimately costs the company 4 hours a year over the expected 15 year life of this project - the math does not work out. Oh, and the committee includes marketing who don't really care about engineering tools (they should not!), so the end result would be the process remains manual because the final decision is this isn't worth doing - and it isn't worth the time it would take to make them understand why they should do it. There is a reason for official processes. There is a reason companies give trusted people authority to ignore them for trivial things.