Stack em high near me12/17/2023 ![]() ![]() It should not surprise anyone that it required a CTO to unironically write the prose above. Oh baby, average order size would go up? I couldn't be more animated and excited. We’d finally increase our market share and start beating the competition again.”Īs she’s telling us this, she looks animated and excited. Our revenue per customer would go through the roof. We’d keep the right products on the right store shelves and keep them stocked. “I’d use that information to drive our production schedule, so we can manage our supply and demand curves. ![]() Was it cringe-inducing at points? Hell yes. Does it miss some of the real barriers to organizations improving? Yes, which I should talk about in another article. That's right, there's a whole genre of corporate fanfiction out there. With the clock ticking, Bill must organize work flow streamline interdepartmental communications, and effectively serve the other business functions at Parts Unlimited. With the help of a prospective board member and his mysterious philosophy of The Three Ways, Bill starts to see that IT work has more in common with manufacturing plant work than he ever imagined. The CEO wants Bill to report directly to him and fix the mess in ninety days or else Bill's entire department will be outsourced. The company's new IT initiative, code named Phoenix Project, is critical to the future of Parts Unlimited, but the project is massively over budget and very late. It's Tuesday morning and on his drive into the office, Bill gets a call from the CEO. Here's the blurb:īill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited. This isn't the main point of bringing the book up, but let's take a brief detour to appreciate how bizarre some parts of it are. Many years ago, trying to figure out what the goddamn hell is going on in the tech industry, I ended up reading The Phoenix Project. The man in question catches up on this blog every few weeks, and will be horrified to discover that when you tell a young, impressionable engineer anything, they're going to think about it for three years and then write their own manifesto. And, most shockingly, on all of those occasions, he professed an admiration for the complexity required for McDonald's to run.Īt first, this startled me - McDonald's! I enjoy myself a mediocre burger as much as the next guy fresh out of university, but the man that graphs the cooking of his chicken is impressed by the place that hungover college students go for their nutrition? Well, it turns out that even if you don't hold the quality of the output in particularly high regard, the optimizations and discipline required to ensure that two different acne-ridden teens with wildly varied education levels, separated by oceans, are capable of producing the same burger are non-trivial to say the least. My current relationship is built on the back of a meal he advised me to prepare on the third date.Įvery day, we would step out of the office to get some coffee, and on at least three separate occasions we ended up talking about the difficulty of running a top-tier kitchen. The first book he gave me was not remotely related to any technical stack we ran, but was instead a 2,438 page manifesto on cooking. We're talking about a culinary madman, capable of anything. The most excited text message I received this year was from him, proudly sharing the goddamn analytics on the heat distribution of chicken in his oven with his newly imported thermometer. ![]() I mean, you might think you love cooking, but this guy loves cooking. The most talented data engineer I know, and my first manager, is a man that loves cooking. ![]()
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