EfficiencyObsession

February 15, 2010
Great presentation by Dan North of Thoughtworks on “Our Obsession with Efficiency”:
Effectiveness is often inefficient
He mentions Throughput Accounting in there, which sounds like a kanban approach to replacing budgets. Theory of Constraints is also something he talks about, which sounds like the theorized explanation of why pre-optimizations don't work.

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