Christopher Justice · Project Management
Heavyweight PM Is Technical Debt
Process overhead compounds like technical debt. Every unnecessary ceremony, every detailed ticket for trivial work, every velocity report nobody uses — you're paying for that. Every sprint. It never…
# Heavyweight PM Is Technical Debt
Process overhead compounds like technical debt. Every unnecessary ceremony, every detailed ticket for trivial work, every velocity report nobody uses — you're paying for that. Every sprint. It never stops.
For each recurring process element, ask: - What problem was this meant to solve? - Does that problem still exist at the same scale? - Is this practice still earning its cost?
Signs: "We do this because we've always done it." Ceremonies where people check phones. Artifacts created but never referenced.
Audit ruthlessly. Experiment with removal. Require justification for new process. Prune regularly.
Remove what doesn't work. Replace with something lighter. Iterate.
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