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# [Weekly Retro] Mechanisms and bureaucracy
- URL: https://www.cesarrg.com/weekly-retro-mechanisms-and-bureaucracy/
- Published: 2023-11-30T23:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-08-11T17:41:20.000Z
- Author: César Rodríguez
- Tags: Weekly Retro, Techniques

#26 - Dec.2023

Happy Friday! Kicking off the last month of 2023!

Here is a quick idea before you head off for the weekend:

Mechanisms are a critical lever for creating structure, bringing accountability, and ensuring consistency in a team.

But when they become excessively complicated they trigger bureaucracy.

Most of the time, complications make their way at a very silent and slow pace: overcentralizing decision-making, adding unnecessary steps to a process, ceremonies with no concrete intention, complex organizational boundaries,...

Mechanisms should serve the people innovating, not the other way around. Review them from time to time. Remove what is not needed.

**Interesting links I found during this week:**

- [My Leaders Still Want Roadmaps with Timelines—What Should I Do?](https://www.producttalk.org/2023/10/roadmaps-with-timelines/?utm%5Fsource=Product+Talk+Newsletter+October+29%2C+2023&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=This+Month+on+Product+Talk)
- [Inside OpenAI: How Does ChatGPT Ship So Quickly?](https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/inside-openai-how-does-chatgpt-ship?ref=cesarrg.com)
- [TIME's Best Inventions of 2023](https://time.com/collection/best-inventions-2023/?ref=cesarrg.com)

**Quote of the week:**

> "A harmonious design requires that nothing be added or taken away." - *Vitruvius*

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