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The procedures are written to standardise the conduct. Standardising reduces the variations that is a waste. So procedure do add value in that perspective. The other main advantage of a procedure is that it enables the work to be carried out by team members whose skills levels are much less than the one writing those procedures.
However, if the users of procedures are skilled enough to make judgements, the possible solution is to make the procedure a little higher level documents providing the required flexibility for the users to exercise the judgement. In such cases over prescribing procedure could produce negative results.
The other factor that must be kept in mind is to frequently review the applicability and scope of the procedures to ensure that they are still relevant and applicable.