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> Business processes are not fundamentally different from any other process. I think you're correct. There is a lot of what project management people can learn

• Jtsummers 5y ago
  And vice versa. A lot of concurrency and distribution problems have been thoroughly examined by the project management people, but not in computational terms that computer scientists would immediately recognize. Operations Research is another rich field that computer scientists often seem to neglect, perhaps out of ignorance of its existence or a belief that it's "just" about managing factories or something. The first time I worked on a real distributed programming system I "grokked" the issues much faster than my peers because of my math degree (dual major) background that had included a couple OR and math modeling courses where I'd already seen the same thing (but presented in different terms). I'm hardly an expert in it, but by having been exposed I knew the right questions to ask to find out more information and how to analyze systems to find bottlenecks.