The case for centralized control
...is the right answer, and never mind the question. A universal engineering principle says that to optimize the whole you have to sub-optimize the parts. On the face of it,...… (6 comments)
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Principal principles
Principle #1 of the KJR Manifesto: There are no best practices, only practices that fit best. Principle #2 of the KJR Manifesto: To optimize the whole you must suboptimize the...… (6 comments)
To optimize a business practice, show some style
...Godot, so there isn’t much justification for stream-of-consciousness expression in the documentation they write. Authors of documentation should recognize when what they’re writing right now is the document title, subtitle,...… (4 comments)
Competitors, mechanics, referees, and economists
...and what doesn’t (everything else). It isn’t that referees don’t understand the principle that in order to optimize the whole you have to sub-optimize the parts (unlike you, they haven’t...… (10 comments)
Refactoring — It isn’t just for software anymore
...the thirteen principles that make up the KJR Manifesto is that to optimize the whole you have to sub-optimize the parts. Put in organizational terms, it means that if each...… (4 comments)
Death to Internal Customers
...views are wrong, and for the same reason: To optimize the whole, designers usually have to sub-optimize the parts. When the subject is business as usual, viewing your job as...…
QQ = RIP
...should fit together, let’s talk. Now in CIO.com: “What CIOs get wrong about optimization.” They ignore the principle that in order to optimize the whole you must sub-optimize the parts....… (12 comments)
Optimizing the unoptimizable
Optimize” is such an easy word to say. Putting it into practice is more slippery. Since we’ve been talking about optimization and sub-optimization for the past couple of weeks, we...…
The end of pure evil
...that marketplaces optimize resource allocation. The inescapable conclusion is that treating the rest of the business as a collection of internal customers optimizes IT resource allocation. To make this all...…
A model of optimization
...should behave than you will if you think of it as a self-directed machine. Among the differences in perspective is how you’ll think about optimization — the subject we’ve been...…