Process theatre is when a team performs every ritual with total compliance and almost no judgement. This week, a practice for designing product work around a few real constraints instead of another checklist.
Most teams treat a practice as the ceremonies on the calendar and the artefacts in the wiki, then wonder why copying a famous team's rituals changes nothing. A practice is really three parts that have to connect, and seeing which one is missing beats adding more process.
A full product week can leave you strangely unconsidered: plenty of motion, no time to look at the work. This piece treats reflection as a practice you schedule, not a quiet week that never arrives.
A lightweight map for seeing where a product team's attention is clear, contested, noisy, or neglected before another prioritisation conversation adds more overload.
Context switching is not a discipline problem - it is a missing reorientation practice. A bounded, social way to get back up to speed without inbox theatre.
