Jonathan Morton <chromati...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So instead of just loading ready-made bags of firewood into my trailer,
> I have to wait for the trimming team to get around to taking the
> branches off "my" tree which is waiting behind a dozen others. The
> branches then go into a big stack of branches waiting for the chopping
> machine. When they eventually get around to chopping those, the
> firewood is carefully put in a separate pile, waiting for the weighing
> and bagging.Your analogy is definitely the result of optimizing for batches rather than latency. (JIT manufacturing in general and much of _The Goal_ talks about the business side of this, btw) But, I don't think that it's a great explanation for grandma. The fetching milk analogy is a bit better, but still not great. John@matrix8, how did it work for you? Explaining this is pretty important. (Thanks for the slide Jonathan) -- ] Never tell me the odds! | ipv6 mesh networks [ ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works | IoT architect [ ] m...@sandelman.ca http://www.sandelman.ca/ | ruby on rails [
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