Operational efficiency

"Why should I care? Let C level executives care about it."

Listing the issues you encounter because of low operational efficiency:
- why should I spend days clarifying requirements?
- why does code review of 2 days task take 2 weeks?
- why should I spend months on onboarding?
- how can we deliver the value if we spend 80% of working day in meetings and chatting?

Operational efficiency has a direct impact on our lives. Make your own working process efficient and you can achieve 100% of the same deliverables in 20% of time.

It's not about Generative AI. These are plain old things:
- understand atoms of your work (what is a working unit?)
- focus on the most important aspect of your work

For example, software architect.
Specification, document, diagrams, architectural decisions - these are synonyms of a single architectural working unit.
The most important aspect of architect work - produce more work units with higher quality.
Meetings, chats, reading news and emails, low level details of architecture, nit picking - waste.

Can my company be operationally efficient? No in 99% cases. Details will be in the next post.