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How to Use Flow Metrics to See if Your Economies of Scale Offer Value, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

Flow Efficiency In How Centralization Decisions Create Friction, Increase Cycle Time, and Cost Money, Part 1, I discussed how removing support staff for departments and managers created longer cycle times. Removing those support staff was one indication the companies fell into the Economies of Scale trap. See the Wikipedia article.

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Minimum Efficient Scale

CaseInterview.com

Today, I want to introduce you to (or perhaps remind you of) the concept of the minimum efficient scale. First, the word “scale” refers to size. In the software startup world, “to scale up” means to “get big fast.”. In economics, economists talk about “economies of scale.” Minimum efficient scale.

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4 Ways Task Duration Estimates Prepare Your Project for Success

PM Alliance

The small-scale resequencing process helps keep your project on time and can even improve efficiency if it allows you to consolidate vendor visits or execute activities simultaneously. 3: Budgets are efficient and predictable. 4: Challenges are easier to address and resolve.

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Decoding the Profit Puzzle

Consulting Matters

For example, when I started my consulting business, I did the bare minimum from a brand and website perspective. If no, on a scale of 1-10, how important is stability to you? Scale of 1-10, how important is a guarantee of your long-term success to you? Make sure your business behind the business is efficient.

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How to build an effective recruitment process

Asamby Consulting

When we work on clients’ recruitment processes, we strive to create a team of "A players'' for our clients to scale and optimize their business. It streamlines these processes and makes searching for viable candidates much more efficient. This measure also helps to keep track of the efficiency of multiple channels of recruitment.

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Project Cost Estimation: Overview of the Process, Main Challenges, and Recommendations

Epicflow

What helps make cost estimation simple and efficient? On the one hand, they strive to reduce costs and deliver the project with minimum required resources as and quickly as possible. And after that, it’s scaled to the size of the whole project. . Let’s figure it out in the article. . The estimation “knife-edge” . References.

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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 5: Summary

Johanna Rothman

BTW: One more thing about an agile culture: Many of the people I spoke with at the conference are convinced they need to “scale.” ” I wrote a series about scaling where I talked about a reasonable progression of how you might work, instead of trying to adopt a framework. That would be resilient. Not a lot of data.

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