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Classic WTF: Prisoner of Process (originally 2007)

• billswift 16y ago
  Maybe I have been spoiled by always working at places that did real work; has anyone here seen shops that emphasized The Book over actual results the way this article does?
  • mansr 16y ago
    Most big companies are like that to some extent, though I have not myself seen one quite as severe as this one. It is worst when a small company pretends to be big by insisting on following processes which might be necessary to make a huge globocorp manageable but make no sense at all when everybody is in the same room.
    • Mz 16y ago
      That was along the lines of my first thought: That it sounds like a large bureaucracy. Of course, the article specifically stated it wasn't a large bureaucracy. So my second thought was that perhaps (or hopefully!) such companies change their ways or die fairly quickly. (I didn't post this earlier mostly because I am not a programmer, so just speaking off the cuff.)