Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | about this site Manager In A Strange Land: Optimizing A Team (03 Jan 2004) We got the idea from reading The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt. Like most management books, there's a very low ratio of actual information to word-count in this book. It's a novel about a poorly run machine shop, and the guys realized they had a bottleneck process, and dealt with it. The idea of optimizing bottleneck functions appealed to the coder in me, of course. Article URL: http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20040103/fristrom_01.shtml Optimizing A Team Read 297 more articles from Game Development Network sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Caroline's Corner: Four Ways to Lose an Order (and One Way to get One) This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy