Leading your engineering team with ‘experiments’ not ‘processes’

Many teams have the same fear when it comes to a new manager: they fear the process monster.

Process monster (n): a manager for whom the answer is always, always ‘process’. The process monster will add more and more processes to the team until the team collapses under the weight of them. Eventually, the monster will move to another role, and the failure of the team will be explained as ‘resistance to process’.