Remember way back when, when you could walk over to the cube next to you, talk to your buddy, argue/agree/argue/agree, and then you would walk back to your own cube and just build it?
Remember when you didn’t have to fill out forms, or get approval from upper management?
Remember when you didn’t have to write a 1000 page spec just to describe what it was you wanted to build, but instead just hashed it out on a white board and put a “Do not Erase” message on it until the project was done?
Remember when you didn’t have to notify 200 people just to start something, and then get their OK before you could launch?
Just when did we transition from “Just Do It” to “Just Talk About It Until Your Head Bursts but Never Really Get to Doing It”? Or “Just Quit Now Because It’s Too Hard to Get to Doing It?”
Too many levels of management. Too much bureaucracy. Too much distrust. Too much emphasis on individual posturing and positioning and not enough on getting the job done.
Are all companies fated to reach this point as they grow to mammoth proportions?