Legibility

I recently came across a blog post called Seeing Like a Software Company by Sean Goedecke on Hacker News . The post hooked me right away by introducing to my vocabulary the term "legibility": By “legible”, I mean work that is predictable, well-estimated, has a paper trail, and doesn’t depend on any contingent factors (like the availability of specific people). Quarterly planning, OKRs, and Jira…