kevinrutherford

That quote is taken from The Choice, and is Goldratt's attempt to summarize his philosophy: that his logical Thinking Tools can be used by anyone, and can provide win-win benefits for everyone in any situation. Worth a quick read, I'd say...

I agree that The Goal isn't the greatest literary novel in history; but then it doesn't set out to be that.

For me, the genius of ToC is that it provides a focussed, step-by-step way to get to the big productivity improvements; whereas lean/kaizen, while also very effective, can take an age to get to the same place.

Imagine a method with this outline:

File createFile(String name, boolean istemp) { if (istemp) // do temp stuff else // do regular file stuff }

That's an 'if' statement that only exists as a response to the boolean parameter. We can remove the 'if' by having two methods instead:

File createFile(String name) File createTempFile(String name)