Re: What is the maturity level of your publication process?

[Andrew Plato <intrepid_es -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

"Yigal Rahamim"  wrote...

> Do you ever find yourself in any of these situations: deadlines are
> routinely missed, original schedules become impossible, plans that are
> written are ignored, project management is basically unknown, and
writers
> work deep into the night to meet deadlines.

...because the writers put off all the "real work" until the 11th hour,
because they spent the first 11 hours maturing their processes (and
writing nothing). 

> Following the quiz you can read an article, contributed by JoAnn Hackos,
on
> the tools needed
> to advance your organization to the next level of process maturity.

...and purchase our expensive consulting services.

Ohhhhh, I really hate this type of "process maturity" nonsense. It has to
be the most utterly detrimental and destructive "theory" ever introduced
to corporations. Not because the theories are inherently bad...the
theories are fine. Its the zealots who become so enamored with the
theories, that they never do a lick of real work. 

I've rescued more companies from "process freaks" then I care to count.
Each time the story is the same. Vainglorious writers obsessed with
building a well-oiled documentation machine that they have no time to do
their real job - produce documents.  

The quiz this firm offers is so skewed and meaningless. Basically, unless
you do things their way (which is needlessly complicated) you're a "bad"
organization.

Which is ultimately the prime failing of most of Jo Anne Hackos books.
They contain some good ideas that if you ever tried to implement them all
in the real world, you would quickly reduce pubs department into a
bureaucratic quagmire.  

Andrew Plato 



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