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| Manage Different | Leadership | Story | 03/28/2010 - 10:48 |
| Model Mania | process improvement | Story | 01/16/2010 - 21:43 |
| My Position on the CMMI | process improvement | Story | 01/16/2010 - 21:49 |
| Process QA | process improvement | Story | 01/20/2010 - 06:43 |
| Process, Projects and Customers: The Unholy Trinity | lean and agile | Story | 01/16/2010 - 21:51 |
| Purpose-Driven Documentation | documentation | Story | 01/16/2010 - 21:54 |
| Reasons for Belief | Culture | Story | 01/16/2010 - 17:46 |
| Schembechler, Bacon and Leadership | Leadership | Story | 03/28/2010 - 10:48 |
| Service Overload | Information Technology | Story | 01/16/2010 - 21:57 |
| Software is Different | software development | Story | 01/16/2010 - 22:01 |
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Paper Mill
If you keep probing, and ask “Precisely what is in the document? What is it for? Who uses it to make which decisions?” then you discover that people do not know why. They are producing the document because it is the next thing to do.
If you recognize this behavior on your project, you may be working in a paper mill.
In a paper mill, every activity is marked by the production of a document, and progress is measured by how many of the documents have been produced—not by what the documents contain. The paper mill principle says: Just in case anyone needs anything, let’s give everbody everything.