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On design and collaboration

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This post has had a long gestation period, starting after I attended the BCS PROMS-G Spring Summer School on Risk in 2013! I've been thinking a lot recently about process and why we do it and what we hope to achieve. In my experience there are a large group of people who cringe when they even hear the word "process", seeing it as a command and control mechanism. But I believe that for every necessary process there is a positive by product that we should be focussing on, and working with, for improvement. To illustrate this I will discuss a design review process. Say an organisation has issues with the introduction and evaluation of new technologies and techniques. So the re-action is to introduce a formal design review process, with feedback from various stakeholders and sign-off before the change gets the go ahead.  The tale of the 6 blind men and the elephant where different perspective and views on an issue, we need to see the bigger picture and get a common p