So yesterday at work, I met with a team doing data collection for one of our myriad pointless process improvement efforts. They wanted to make their useless data collection effort easier with a web-based database attached to another web-based database designed to do data collection for a different time-wasting process improvement effort. I felt like I was talking to Dr. Frankenstein after his monster had escaped and was terrorizing the local village. Nothing worthwhile had been accomplished, the team was overwhelmed by the size of the data collection job and everyone was being eaten by this thing.
Meanwhile, of course, lots of new process improvement efforts are being started.
We're being eaten alive by our own process improvement creations.
4 comments:
Back when I worked there, I remember we actually were working on projects. Of course I was young and foolish.
Well, the classic response to one monster rampaging about, is to create/find a *second* monster to do battle with the first one (with much collateral damage). Any way you can manage something like that? Like maybe starting a process-improvement audit of the process-improvement people themselves?
MN, those were the good old days.
Tim, as of right now, we've got Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolfman, the Blob and the Brain from Planet Auros running around smashing things. Make another monster and turn it loose? Sigh. Sure. Why not? It's not like things can get any worse.
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