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==={{wasteprov|Over- | ==={{wasteprov|Over-engineering}}=== | ||
'''Headline''': ''Don’t design your plane to be waterproof in case it falls into the sea. Design it so it doesn’t crash.'' | '''Headline''': ''Don’t design your plane to be waterproof in case it falls into the sea. Design it so it doesn’t crash.'' | ||
In its original physical manufacturing sense, {{wasteprov|over-processing}} refers to ''unnecessary [[complication]] in design'', whether brought about through carelessness or over-specification. The production cost of features that | In its original physical manufacturing sense, {{wasteprov|over-processing}} refers to ''unnecessary [[complication]] in design'', whether brought about through carelessness or over-specification. The production cost of features that no-one will ever use is as much a form of wastage as any. | ||
The chief production cost in [[contract negotiation]] is ''time'' and ''human resource''. The longer a contract takes to read, and the more it invites challenge<ref>Which will be, in part, a function of its length — there more there is to read, the more there is to challenge.</ref>, the more expensive it is to produce. ''Any'' time taken over the bare minimum needed and ''any'' client challenge to a term that is not really vital the firm’s risk protection strategy is a waste in the contract negotiation process. | The chief production cost in [[contract negotiation]] is ''time'' and ''human resource''. The longer a contract takes to read, and the more it invites challenge<ref>Which will be, in part, a function of its length — there more there is to read, the more there is to challenge.</ref>, the more expensive it is to produce. ''Any'' time taken over the bare minimum needed and ''any'' client challenge to a term that is not really vital the firm’s risk protection strategy is a waste in the contract negotiation process. | ||
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====[[Barnacles]] and the effluxion of time==== | ====[[Barnacles]] and the effluxion of time==== | ||
:''“[[Rework - Book Review|Policy is institutional scar tissue]]”'' — [[Jason Fried]] | :''“[[Rework - Book Review|Policy is institutional scar tissue]]”'' — [[Jason Fried]] | ||
{{barnacles}} | {{barnacles}} | ||
'''Summary''': ''[[Over-processing]] arises through excessive caution in [[credit|credit terms]] and through the natural, pragmatic process of getting negotiations across the line. If your counterparty insists on something misconceived, idiotic but basically harmless, then [[I'm not going to die in a ditch about it|few negotiators will die in a ditch about it]].<ref>Before long, preposterous [[incluso]]s having this origin will be littered through your templates, no one will know why they are there or what they mean, but all will assume there must have been a good reason and no one will dare to remove them. {{isdaprov|Cross Default}} is like that.</ref> The length and convolution of documents creates significant {{wasteprov|over-processing}} wastage and, as a by-product, {{wasteprov|waiting}} and {{transport}} wastage as well, through unnecessary [[escalation]]." <br> | '''Summary''': ''[[Over-processing]] arises through excessive caution in [[credit|credit terms]] and through the natural, pragmatic process of getting negotiations across the line. If your counterparty insists on something misconceived, idiotic but basically harmless, then [[I'm not going to die in a ditch about it|few negotiators will die in a ditch about it]].<ref>Before long, preposterous [[incluso]]s having this origin will be littered through your templates, no one will know why they are there or what they mean, but all will assume there must have been a good reason and no one will dare to remove them. {{isdaprov|Cross Default}} is like that.</ref> The length and convolution of documents creates significant {{wasteprov|over-processing}} wastage and, as a by-product, {{wasteprov|waiting}} and {{wasteprov|transport}} wastage as well, through unnecessary [[escalation]]." <br> | ||