OASIS Product Management Mantras, Chapter 9

Run lean … this includes teams, specifications, features, and nearly everything else involved in output.

This point is a perfect complement to the former. In order to achieve efficient, continual output, a product team cannot be laden with excessive processes and unnecessary constraints. Certainly, some processes are necessary to keep the product organized and operational. The Agile software development methodology, although perpetually driving progress forward, has many standard operating procedures. However, running as lean as possible achieves certain benefits through quick, intelligent decision making, the ability to self-correct, and a means to design from common sense instead of “design by committee." To quote a decent article I read not too long ago, “a camel is a horse designed by committee.” OASIS shall become a race horse … and a fast, efficient one at that.