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A recipe for doing things right, so nobody blames you when they go wrong.
means An established, step-by-step way of performing a task, often formalized to ensure consistency.
from From Latin procedere, to go forward, via French procedure — literally the act of marching onward, one ordained step at a time.
Medical twinIn hospitals it politely means surgery.
Code cousinProgrammers borrowed it for reusable blocks of instructions.
Bureaucratic ballastStandard ones exist mainly to survive audits.