Book review: Goal
29 Apr 2023https://twitter.com/sajithpai/status/1637708835228995586
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_constraints
testing update
interested in operational excellence
- different from amp it up /score will take care of itself (https://twitter.com/eglyman/status/1470468707763773444?lang=ca)
- two worlds of this: systems design and coaching
raw notes
- applying to building startups
- what is throughput for a product org? is it features/tickets?
- is system of delivery the correct goal/system to focus on?
- throughput = "insights" into what customers find valuable
- or a tested hypothesis
- eliminate external constraints
- what is throughput for a product org? is it features/tickets?
- general idea of management as a science
- time spent in waiting is more than time spent in processing
- an hour lost at bottleneck is an hour lost in throughput
- style of writing a non-fiction/business book
- were the personal story bits relevant? yes - analogies
- manual for factorio
- imagine systems as chains - dependent asks with statistic fluctuations
- emphasis on systems thinking, an application of systems thinking
- identification of constraints - 2 people look at different constraints in the system
- disagreement in prioritisation and strategy
- local efficiency is not helpful - what is an engg manager to optimise for?
- measurements