It wasn't appropriate for your boss to vent to you, but it sounds like that was what he was doing. Continue to do your work well, and cooperate with the extra p

It wasn't appropriate for your boss to vent to you, but it sounds like that was what he was doing. Continue to do your work well, and cooperate with the extra process for now. Give him a week or so to cool off. If you're feeling brave, ask him if there's anything you can do to help him support the team. Documenting how the new process affects your productivity? Taking the process to new heights of absurdity? The answer may be to just follow the damn process and let him deal with the politics. Process isn't always a bad thing - it can help make sure that your coding time is spent on the right things and it can help stem a lot of value loss and productivity obstacles related to siloed information. Work that feels like a big time sink up front can pay big dividends in the long run (the process equivalent of building a test suite for an existing code base). And if it's really that bad, touch up your resume!