> [!tldr] Don't try to make the current process faster. Start from zero and ask what's the best way. While [[Build On Yourself|Don't start from scratch]] is one of my central tenants - there are times where that is **absolutely** the right idea. [[Zero-Based Budgeting]] is the idea that your budget should start from $0 today. Don't automatically assume the in-flight work that you've budgeted for deserves to keep its budget simply because it was already there. Zero based-budgeting asks you to start from $0, look at [[What's Important Now]], and choose to **either re-commit to the existing plan or use those resources better elsewhere**. This exact same philosophy and approach can be used for process improvement. Don't try to make the steps of existing process better. Try making the *process* better. Start from zero. Ask yourself **what value am I aiming to achieve?** [[Do the Simplest Thing]] that achieves that value, regardless of whether its in the existing process. If the existing steps truly add [[Business Value]] and cannot be done better, recommit to them. Otherwise don't do them. Update the [[Standard Processes]] to do the simpler thing. ## Steve Jobs iDVD Example Some product designers rebuilt the iDVD application to make it simpler. They took a software that used to have a gigantic user guide, and made it into something that was sleek and guided the users through the process. **Steve Jobs hated it.** He went to the whiteboard. Drew a rectangle and said: "this is your user interface. The user drags stuff into this rectangle, then clicks a button that says 'burn DVD'. That's it." Everything else was unnecessary. [[More is Unnecessary, Less is Impossible.]] That's when you've hit it. **** # More ## Source - self - [[Effortless]]