On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Herbert Graf wrote: > Usually the answer is a very loud "no". > > I've had the experience of working for a company that was initially a > little smaller and very nimble. It was then bought out and now we're > big, and it's amazing how so many "simple" things now are alot of > paperwork to get accomplished. It's very frustrating, but it's simply > how things work in bigger companies I suppose. > Often this is called "Process Oriented". There are many SOP "Standard Operating Procedures". Often simple things becomes very complicated. You spend a lot of time on the process and associated documentations and much less time on real designs and innovations. There are some upsides in this approach. For example, things become slightly easier when someone leaves the company since the documentations are there. But in reality, often the real design know-hows are not in the standard documentation but with the designer. -- Xiaofan http://mcuee.blogspot.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist