Not sure how much it’s known, but Jeff Bezos is a huge fan of the Theory of Constraints. Such a big fan that ‘The Goal’ from Eli Goldratt is one of the 3 must-read books he gives out to all senior executives joining Amazon.
»I’m able to experiment with the production code.
»because they like them better than smaller changes.
»When you co-create as a team (together and at the same time) “quality is everyone’s responsibility” mindset is inherent and you don’t have to keep reminding people of it.
»The “cost” is increased speed.
»tends to be inversely proportional to the amount of mobbing needed during outages.
»…which decreases transaction cost, which enables even smaller batches, which means (even more) co-creation.
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What if we shift thinking from
“everyone focus on finishing what they’re doing”
to
“everyone helping each other finish what they’re doing”?
I see people having to beg others to review their PR.
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