Optimizing benchmarks
To optimize the whole you usually have to sub-optimize the parts. This is a fundamental reality of design. It isn’t, however, an original discovery. I personally first encountered the concept...…
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Vasa matta you?
...don’t mind “sub-optimize the parts to optimize the whole” at all. It is catchy. More important, the phrasing requires executives and managers to figure out what constitutes the “whole” and...…
Agile vs Waterfall, one more time
...popular strawman is that Agile can’t work because in order to optimize the whole you have to suboptimize the parts, which supposedly can’t happen because in Agile, each developer does...… (5 comments)
To lock or not to lock – it’s a deeper question than you thought
...to explore in depth. Top-down planning has the advantage over bottom-up initiative when it comes to engineering elegance. Since the only way to optimize the whole is to sub-optimize the...…
The suboptimized outsource
...is likely to have changed, in numerous, subtle, hard-to define ways. You have to suboptimize the parts to optimize the whole. Most outsourcing arrangements violate this premise, and they do...…
Optimizing the organization
...end-user support has to be sub-optimized, recognizing that an additional delay in resolving some complaint or other is outweighed by (for example) the need to allow key developers to focus...… (1 comment)
Strategic stepwise improvement
...means.) It’s time to wrap up our discussion of organizational optimization. It began with a proposition from the KJR Manifesto: That to optimize the whole you have to sub-optimize the...…
Why optimize when you can automate?
...we did. We didn’t optimize processes, orchestrate them, or develop metrics to assess their performance. We obliterated them, replacing them with computer programs that called on humans only when an...… (14 comments)
KJR Manifesto – Core Principles
...practices that fit best. Different situations call for different solutions — form follows function. 1. To optimize the whole you must sub-optimize the parts. Being clear about where your company...… (3 comments)
ManagementSpeak, 4/7/2008
ManagementSpeak: In order to optimize the whole we’ll have to sub-optimize the parts. Translation: Your whole is about to be optimized. Alternative Translation: We’re going to ruin the parts. Thanks...…