Do You Even Process Bro?

The title is what I get for having kids and living with teenagers — the constant meme-driven noise that pervades every aspect of home life.

The title is a deviation from an older meme about weightlifting that has been co-opted into a simple question about doing things that seem obvious and common. Things that we should all be doing.

This brings us to the topic at hand.

Processes.

The thought of building and following a process can, unfortunately, have some negative connotations. Processes almost always carry overhead and paperwork. They take time. They can be tedious.

Yet there are processes all around us in the business world. They are, at a deep level, a means of communication. Of structure. Of collaboration.

To an Engineer, a finely tuned process is a thing of beauty.

But I digress. While the goal is to argue for processes and the value they bring, first a definition of what is and isn’t a process is needed.

So What is this Process thing anyways?

Looking up a definition for process, many results come back. It would be easy to slap a definition on the term and simply move on here. The problem here is that to truly define a good process, it needs a lot of rails around it…