Oops Fwd: Re: Time management

So said  Bill Walton  on  2002-12-13 --------------------

<snip />
>I think it's more about money.  The fewer people you can employ to do the
>same amount of work, the higher your profit margins.  The better your
>profit
>margins, the better your competitive position in the capital markets, the
>more money you can hold in reserve for hard times, etc., etc., etc.

The notion that fewer people can do the same amount of work is generally
faulty. Fewer people can address the same number of tasks, but they cannot
possibly do the same amount of work or provide the same amount of value.[1]
My conjecture is that businesses generally underestimate the floor.

[1] I should qualify this by assuming that everyone is trying, no-one is sabotaging and the people who need to talk to each other are talking to each other regularly. This is implied, I think, in XP.

J. B. Rainsberger,
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