Sunday, December 16, 2007

Developing Process

Some of the greatest things in world are created with process, for example: frozen pizzas. We all know the world has a structure and at some point in our life we realize what that all means. But it's not a bunch of people yelling at each other to get something done, it's a process.

Every successful system has its foundation, and that foundation is the process that makes it successful. How we develop a process and implement it isn't in the same step and neither of them are simple. Starting with a blank screen and spilling emotion won't get us far either. The first step is to find what the process is intended for, start brainstorming from that text.

Over several hours or throughout a couple days we should have a lot of ideas. Compile the ideas and organize in a way that's easy to follow. Utilize the process over and over until you've worked out all the kinks, omit things that are unnecessary and add things that may be essential. Make sure that the steps are simple, complicating the process may make it a burden, a burden is less likely to be conducted.

After an action is completed while using the process and it's 100% each time the process is carried out, then we know we have a functioning process. Keep a log of every time the process is used, and document what is made with each step of the process. Understanding and knowledge is key here not perfection.

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