Q: Most efficient way to crush the soul of creativity?
A: Formal process.
If you work in any fast-moving industry for long enough, you’ll come to either love or despise process. It’s inevitable. We all have to work with so many people, teams, and partners on increasing complex systems and services, it’s only natural to try and impose some order to stave off potential chaos. Nothing wrong with that, in fact it’s needed for deeply technical projects.
Similarly, you’ll also see highly prescriptive process and methodology in creative pursuits. Some of it is necessary when integrating within engineering teams and ...
