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| Process-People-and-Priorities | ryan | management | In every organization, three critical elements determine success: People, Processes, and Priorities. While all are essential, their ranking matters profoundly. Based on my experience across several organizations, I've found that Processes must come first, followed by People, with Priorities anchored firmly at the foundation. This deliberate ordering—Processes at the top, People in the middle, and Priorities as bedrock—creates the most stable and effective organizational structure. When Processes guide how People work and how Priorities are determined, organizations can avoid the chaos of constant priority shifts, reduce dependency on specific individuals, and create consistent frameworks for decision-making. ## Defining Terms Let's define what each of these mean from an organizational perspective: 1. Processes - How to solve the problems 2. People - Who will solve the problems 3. Priorities - The order in which to solve the problems ## Process In my experience ranking Priorities first leads to lots of changes to Priorities. This week it's shipping a new feature to make all of the buttons cornflower blue ... next week it's adding AI to the application. The week after that it's to mine bitcoin. Priorities shift, and that's OK, but priority driven organizations seem to not have a true defining north star to help guide them, which in my experience that leads to chaos. Ranking People first sounds like a good idea. I mean, who doesn't want to put People first? I have found however that when People are prioritized first bad things can happen. Cliques can form. Only Sally can do thing X and they're out for the next three weeks and no, there isn't any documentation on how to do that. Management can be lax because that's just Bob being Bob and can lead to toxic work environments. I think that putting Process first helps to mitigate, though not outright eliminate, these concerns. Processes help to determine how we do thing **X**. If Sally is out, that's OK because we have a _Process_ and documentation to help… | 2025-03-09 | In every organization, three critical elements determine success: People, Processes, and Priorities. While all are essential, their ranking matters profoundly. Based on my experience across several organizations, I've found that Processes must come first, followed by People, with Priorities anchored firmly at the foundation. This deliberate ordering—Processes at the … | Process, People, and Priorities | https://www.ryancheley.com/2025/03/09/Process-People-and-Priorities/ |
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