Thursday, September 26, 2013

Progress and the Garden

At work, we recently had a fairly significant success.  The customer reported that the end result was good, they were pleased.

It took a lot of work to get there, much of it is not repeatable work.

Which brings me to the "kinda like."

Business processes are like gardening.  Sometimes you have the small plot and harvest for beans, peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes and the like.

This is fine, and appropriate for the outcome.  You won't get grapes this way.

If you want to grow grapes, you need to come at things a little differently.  You can't plow over the garden and replant everything the next year.

So, when you are working through your processes, are you trying to reach orchard / vineyard level, or do you need to replot and replant every year?

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