GitHub has one of the most interesting approaches to product development and software development of anyone in the industry. Zach Holman posted an overview of their process and talked about how they have maintained it as the team has grown. Toward the end, he writes:

This stuff doesn’t come easily, but it unfortunately leaves easily. Figuring out ways to streamline, to improve your process, to grow your company as you grow your employees is a constant struggle. It’s something that should be continually re-evaluated.

Just as it’s a lot easier to add features to software than it is to remove them, so too is it a lot easier to make software development processes more complex than it is to simplify them.