As a company scales, it becomes necessary to add or codify process. The key tradeoff under consideration is always whether the drag imposed by the process is wo

As a company scales, it becomes necessary to add or codify process. The key tradeoff under consideration is always whether the drag imposed by the process is worth the gains in efficiency or effectiveness. I kind of like "process drag" as terminology for the overhead associated with formalized processes. It sounds a little more pejorative than simply "process overhead". It might make a good addition to the lexicon, right next to "technical debt".