I was unable to re-find the fine article by a very accredited software process professional. The article I am seeking is the one about re-inventing the process model over and over again.
Anyway once you have a broken process, you will never be fully comfortable with performing it. Many people ignore the hiccups and the annoyances, however some one might try to improve on the process. This is fine. Now the trouble starts. The one who actually succeeds to improve the process, thinks the new super process is globally applicable, writes it down in a book, sells some books and talks about this new super process.
Until now, no real harm has been done, except for the $$$ and hours your company and you has spent on the books and talks. The real trouble starts when you and your company does not understand the context of the new super process, and you start to apply the new super process in the context of your own company.
The trouble is, that a model is not a one-size-fits-all. A model is an ideal and filtered image of some past reality, hopefully based on some empiric observations. Thus a model is always some kind of interpretation of the real world (what ever that is).
Once you start to run your own copy of the new super process model, it might act up, especially if it is a complex model. And surely a few feedback loops does not help, neither does any kind of external noise - periodic or not. This might be why science like simple models over complex models.
So what you realise is, that your copy of the new super process does not perform better than your own old process. But once in, the new "super" process cannot be uninstalled. You can try to erase it, distort it, or even try to forget it, but it will newer be the same as before.
Then you live with it, learn to love it, and new generations will learn it and pass it one. Until someone cannot stand the hiccups and the annoyances, and finally decides to try to improve the process - with success. Then writes a book and gives some talks, and you know the rest.
What makes this story fun, is the fact that this kind of knowledge-transfer is highly regarded in our western society (if you pay for the IM copyrights that is). You pay a lot of money for your copy of the new super process. And everyone knows that it is hard to make such a transfer succeed, so you choose the most expensive consultants to help you introduce their copy of the model of the new super process. And of course you end up with a - most of all - expensive process copy.
My wisdom: Learn from other's mistakes. Make your own process improvements (how to succeed on this is a completely other topic - a BI-topic, or business intelligence topic).
Anyway once you have a broken process, you will never be fully comfortable with performing it. Many people ignore the hiccups and the annoyances, however some one might try to improve on the process. This is fine. Now the trouble starts. The one who actually succeeds to improve the process, thinks the new super process is globally applicable, writes it down in a book, sells some books and talks about this new super process.
Until now, no real harm has been done, except for the $$$ and hours your company and you has spent on the books and talks. The real trouble starts when you and your company does not understand the context of the new super process, and you start to apply the new super process in the context of your own company.
The trouble is, that a model is not a one-size-fits-all. A model is an ideal and filtered image of some past reality, hopefully based on some empiric observations. Thus a model is always some kind of interpretation of the real world (what ever that is).
Once you start to run your own copy of the new super process model, it might act up, especially if it is a complex model. And surely a few feedback loops does not help, neither does any kind of external noise - periodic or not. This might be why science like simple models over complex models.
So what you realise is, that your copy of the new super process does not perform better than your own old process. But once in, the new "super" process cannot be uninstalled. You can try to erase it, distort it, or even try to forget it, but it will newer be the same as before.
Then you live with it, learn to love it, and new generations will learn it and pass it one. Until someone cannot stand the hiccups and the annoyances, and finally decides to try to improve the process - with success. Then writes a book and gives some talks, and you know the rest.
What makes this story fun, is the fact that this kind of knowledge-transfer is highly regarded in our western society (if you pay for the IM copyrights that is). You pay a lot of money for your copy of the new super process. And everyone knows that it is hard to make such a transfer succeed, so you choose the most expensive consultants to help you introduce their copy of the model of the new super process. And of course you end up with a - most of all - expensive process copy.
My wisdom: Learn from other's mistakes. Make your own process improvements (how to succeed on this is a completely other topic - a BI-topic, or business intelligence topic).
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