This is an old discussion. Goldratt wrote an entire book largely on this topic, The Goal. One of the early chapters (it's been a decade since I read it, not goi

This is an old discussion. Goldratt wrote an entire book largely on this topic, The Goal. One of the early chapters (it's been a decade since I read it, not going to track down a copy to get precise pages or anything) is addressing confusion over the utilization of a machine in the factory vs the efficiency of the factory. It's also not new in software. I had a manager tell me I didn't spend enough time typing (he'd never written a line of code after college), even though I'd written quite a bit but not enough code apparently. He liked heroic coders, the sort I usually ended up cleaning up after because they spent too little time thinking and too much time typing, producing products that couldn't be maintained because they had multi-thousand line functions and grotesque for loops containing the bulk of the logic.