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> Really, it’s the same sort of problem that is described in The Goal and The Phoenix Project, but on a personal level. Can you say more about this?
by heymijo 5y ago
> Really, it’s the same sort of problem that is described in The Goal and The Phoenix Project, but on a personal level.
Can you say more about this?
- jkhdigital 5y agoBoth of those books are about WIP (work in progress). The Goal describes a systematic way to figure out where your production process is getting bottlenecked, and then how to alleviate the constraint and improve overall throughput. The first step is to identify the largest pile of WIP waiting for a particular process step. The Phoenix Project extends this same methodology to IT processes, which is challenging because unlike physical production processes the workflow (and piles of WIP) are often hidden in databases and ticketing systems (which have an infinite capacity!). Furthermore, the process steps are often not even systematically documented, which makes it impossible to pin down your capacity in the first place. Personal productivity is definitely more like the latter, since we are capable of holding quite a bit of invisible WIP in our brains.