Winer on Workflow
2001-02-25 16:43:17+01 by
Dan Lyke
4 comments
Leo once recounted a meeting with Disney execs when he was producering Toy Story Animated
StoryBook. There was a suggestion made, a suggestion that everyone thought was
really compelling and would improve the product, and one of the Disney guys
said "but that's not something our company does". And it was important because
it showed just how clearly the Disney corporate culture is distinct, and the
employees are aware that the value of Disney the trademark is that corporate
culture. There's a reason they fired Harlan Ellison. This morning Dave Winer
talks about workflow, and why
his system doesn't implement it. I like his reasons, but I think about the
checks and balances Leo talked about Disney implementing and I realize that
those things exist for a reason, and there are times when I wish I had an editor
even for Flutterby.
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#Comment made: 2002-02-21 06:31:11+01 by:
baylink
Well, in the Dave Winer tradition of tarring everything with the same brush, and throwing the baby out with the bathwater, he's trashing workflow management now,
is he?
Just what I'd expect.
Workflow management is merely the capability to make certain that things happen in the order you want them to, that no one misses doing something you need them to do, and -- most importantly -- that they're notified that they need to do something.
The canonical example is a purchase requisition. The employee needs a stapler. They file a PR. The system looks at the category of item, and the order total (and maybe the person/department's budget). It then either ships the PR along to Purchasing to cut a PO directly, or puts it on the work queue of the appropriate manager(s) for approval.
If he thinks that workflow is *solely* concerned with restricting people from getting things posted on public websites... well, then, he's a tunnel-visioned as ever.
#Comment made: 2002-02-21 06:31:13+01 by:
baylink
Nice to know that _I'm not the only one who thinks that, either._ (http://paulsrandomwalk.editthispage.com/stories/storyReader$13)
#Comment made: 2002-02-21 06:31:13+01 by:
baylink
Well, apparently, the semantics changed to "none of that works now".
#Comment made: 2002-02-21 06:31:13+01 by:
Dan Lyke
Ummm... No, that all should still work, I haven't changed the formatting engine in a looong time. The problem is that space after your "either", remove that (no, I'm not going to edit your messages without your express permission) and it'll work.
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