“Blue Light” creating capacity for nothing (2007)
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“Blue Light” creating capacity for nothing (2007)
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Re: “Blue Light” creating capacity for nothing (2007)
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#3Great article. It is almost always the case that we live under "assumed constraints". Most of the time when we question the underlying assumptions we are able to break the constraint or relax it to obtain a better solution.
The Goal, by Eliyahu M. Goldratt is highly recommended for understanding Theory of Constraints told from the view of a fictional plant manager.
Re: “Blue Light” creating capacity for nothing (2007)
#4This brought a smile to my face. Solid industrial engineering fundamentals brought to the table.
Re: “Blue Light” creating capacity for nothing (2007)
#5This reminds me of the fight I had to hire an Infrastructure Engineer (they call them DevOps, these days).
It was like pulling teeth, but, in fairly short order, the chap I hired became the most popular member of the team.
Re: “Blue Light” creating capacity for nothing (2007)
#6This reminds me of the fight I had to hire an Infrastructure Engineer (they call them DevOps, these days). It was like pulling teeth, but, in fairly short order, the chap I hired became the most popular member of the team.
I had to beg for a simple server to separate staging and customers demos once, that were jamming up half a day a week.
The official request I made said the server would pay for itself in eight weeks. I think the boss finally understood why I was being so grumpy about it at that point. Or maybe you could just trust the people you claim to trust.
Re: “Blue Light” creating capacity for nothing (2007)
#7This reminds me of the fight I had to hire an Infrastructure Engineer (they call them DevOps, these days). It was like pulling teeth, but, in fairly short order, the chap I hired became the most popular member of the team.
My current environment... we develop on a production environment.
And our toolchain... put it this way. We went from no documented procedures, to several. And the several... have no date, no version, no author, no revision control...
Friday is my last day. I am so happy.
Re: “Blue Light” creating capacity for nothing (2007)
#8Where's the part where the welders start doing needless welding to satisfy the helper's target?
Or is the point that a good consultant knows to leave before that happens?
Re: “Blue Light” creating capacity for nothing (2007)
#9Where's the part where the welders start doing needless welding to satisfy the helper's target? Or is the point that a good consultant knows to leave before that happens?
Many humans avoid malicious compliance, because they want to keep their job.
Re: “Blue Light” creating capacity for nothing (2007)
#10Where's the part where the welders start doing needless welding to satisfy the helper's target? Or is the point that a good consultant knows to leave before that happens?
More likely the consultant helped them learn that now that they're so efficient, they can downsize the welding team.