The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.
—Don Marquis
Chapter 8
The Semantics of Processes
If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
—W. Edwards Deming
There seems to be a process for everything: clinical trials, school admissions, impeaching presidents, and, of course, developing software. Such processes are closely linked to repeatability; they allow highly repeatable tasks to be performed with added efficiency. The emergence of the industrial age and the extensive use of machinery has a lot to do with the emergence of processes. There have always been methods, ...
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