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-====== Existing processes that are unnecessarily complex and based on unsound logic ======+====== Overly Complicated Processes ======
  
 Once the existing processes have been documented, they should be evaluated to determine if they are unnecessarily complex, or if they are based on outdated or unsound logic. Once the existing processes have been documented, they should be evaluated to determine if they are unnecessarily complex, or if they are based on outdated or unsound logic.
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 Examples of this are: Examples of this are:
  
-  - Moving tapes back and forth from an off-site vendor to save $5 a month on off-site storage charges, but spending 5 hours a month of extra labor recording the movements in a spreadsheet and the off-site vendor's portal. +  - Moving tapes back and forth from an offsite vendor to save $5 a month on offsite storage charges, but spending 5 hours a month of extra labor recording the movements in a spreadsheet and the offsite vendor's portal. 
-  - Accepting unnecessarily complex backup and offsite schedules that are based on logic that can not be programmed into a scheduling system. +  - Accepting unnecessarily complex backup and offsite schedules that are based on logic that cannot be programmed into a scheduling system. 
-  - Scanning tapes with a hand-held barcode scanner when they are being entered into a robotic library that could otherwise automatically register the tapes as having been received.+  - Scanning tapes with a hand-held Barcode scanner when they are being entered in to a robotic library that could otherwise automatically register the tapes as having been received.
   - Relying on paperwork to record what comes and goes from each site.   - Relying on paperwork to record what comes and goes from each site.
   - Picking tapes from a paper listing.   - Picking tapes from a paper listing.
  
  
-<- planning:existing_processes|The lack of understanding of existing processes ^ planning:introduction|Introduction ^ planning:warnings_and_oversight|Implementing software that will warn of mistakes that previously went unnoticed ->+<- planning:existing_processes|Understanding Existing Processes ^ planning:introduction|Introduction ^ planning:warnings_and_oversight|New Warnings and Oversight ->
  
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