These slides are part of a presentation given at Silicon Valley code Camp 2009.

1. Slow Down to Speed Up Workshop & Discovery Session Silicon Valley Code Camp October, 2009

3. Do a little cost accounting

5. What were the results?

6. How much money did you make (or lose)?

8. Do a little more cost accounting

10. What were the results?

11. How much money did you make (or lose)?

12. Some Basic Definitions Throughput The rate at which a system generates money through sales . Inventory All the money that a system has invested in purchasing things it intends to sell . Operating Expense All the money a system spends in order to turn inventory into throughput .

13. How to Stay in Business Throughput Inventory Operating Expense

14. So What Does All This Have To Do With Developing Software? Software development is not the same as manufacturing

16. People consume knowledge at their own rate

17. Creating knowledge faster than it can be consumed does not increase throughput

18. Questions ?

20. Decide how to exploit the bottlenecks.

21. Subordinate everything else to the above decision.

22. Elevate the system's bottlenecks.

23. If, in a previous step, a bottleneck has been broken, go back to step 1. (From The Goal, page 301)