{"id":1052,"date":"2014-03-27T22:49:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T05:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2014-03-27T22:49:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T05:49:59","slug":"process-isnt-a-bad-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/process-isnt-a-bad-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Process isn&#8217;t a bad word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The goal of this experiment is whether we can be smarter about building product because we pay more attention to how we do it.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone I know out in the Valley is quite process averse. Folks write against it, preach against it, and fight against it as much as possible. We&#8217;re not big enough to need it or there&#8217;s nothing broken with our product development cycles are the main excuses I&#8217;ve heard though there are others.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to figure out why this is a ruse.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen where the small team fails without a process. I&#8217;ve seen where the perception of success is simply a lack of visibility into what&#8217;s possible.<\/p>\n<p>And so I&#8217;m putting my money where my mouth is.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve talked about this a lot amongst the product team. Betsy started it off by putting a more visible design process on the table. The design team has picked it up by putting a work board onto a wall in the office. On the product management side, we&#8217;re creating a one page spec sheet. In one page, we want to define business requirements, use cases, core functional requirements, and a success criteria. It involves being brief, being straight forward, and properly building a living document.<\/p>\n<p>The outcome should not be a cumbersome set of hurdles to get things out the door. It should be a common language for product development that helps us become great at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The goal of this experiment is whether we can be smarter about building product because we pay more attention to how we do it. Everyone I know out in the Valley is quite process averse. Folks write against it, preach against it, and fight against it as much as possible. We&#8217;re not big enough to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-becomingapm","category-builder"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAIx-gY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}