Companies need some kind of structure to their day-to-day activities to help things get done efficiently, proficiently, and indeed at all. The paradise of perfect, productive processes that take all of the tedious parts of producing something awesome and make them “automatic” and “easy” is a very alluring, and at first glance very reasonable one. Various flavours of weekly reviews, information storing methods and task management systems fall into this bucket – put your ideas here, review this document, fill in this form, put your links here, send me bug reports in this way etc. If there is a heavily prescriptive system for doing everything, then everything admin and communication related will be easy and you can focus on making the magic happen. Right?...
