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Nah, you've just re-discovered Just In Time and the Theory of Constraints. You've read "The Phoenix Project," right? Go read "The Goal" by Eliyahu Goldratt. TPP was based on The Goal, and reading both illustrated how many of the solutions that software development experts have landed on to improve productivity and the chance of a successful project are the same as the manufacturing problem solutions that manufacturers landed on twenty to thirty years ago.

I have a degree in logistics, but I work as a scripting-heavy systems engineer. My hobby is home construction, especially building systems like drainage planes, vapor management in walls, and structured wiring and plumbing. It's literally all the same thing with almost identical sets of problems.




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