Who runs Engineering processes?

What I’ve learned since, mostly through designing thoughtful processes that nonetheless failed, is that good process is a deliberate tradeoff between quality and overhead.

This reads like the managerial manifestation of “do you want more boilerplate or more magic [in your codebase]?” Nobody likes having more overhead…but nobody likes defaulting to uncertainty to handle routine situations, either. Knowing that the tradeoff must be made made feels like the smallest increment of progress.