James Drogan

Re: Conversations with Dave

See The End of Process. I've bookmarked it, but have yet to read it. I was led to it from Irving Wladawsky-Berger's blog, but I note that Mayfield is cited on a regular basis by people I think are pretty level headed when comes to techno-business.

A quick hypotheses: no process equals no need for architecture.

Anyway, more later after I've read Mayfield.

Following a reply by Dave I then e-mailed him the following.

I read Mayfield and think, as you do, that he's missing the point. Constipated processes are symptomatic of deeper issues. However, perhaps he has done service by simply calling the question.

I would hypothesize that processes, as customarily understood, increasingly become encumbrances as one moves up the management hierarchy and/or as one encounters increasingly smaller decision windows. "As customarily understood" is meant to imply that processes may continue to exist as one moves along these two dimensions, but with a different set of characteristics than have been generally accepted.