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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
The point is, doing it right, doing it in a clear well thought out manner IS the easy way.
This is why companies have all these guidelines and policies - they have spent millions of $$$ in the past, learning the hard way.
But now that this has all been explained to you, you dont have to learn the hard way too :^)
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Looking at the other posts on this thread, I think we have come to some agreement. Namely that laziness, if carried out in a disciplined manner, is a good thing. If it is not carried out in such a manner, the result is frustration and gnashing of teeth.
I think it boils down to thinking about what you are going to do. Define the task, what goal are you trying to accomplish? Then figure out how you are going to accomplish it, and what resources you need to do so. The think some more and see if you can take anything out. When you can't see how you can do any less, then and only then are you ready to start doing something. This IS engineering.
By the way I was a little inaccurate in my recollections of Mr Gilbreth's work yesterday. He didn't improve the productivity of bricklaying by 30%, it was more like 300%. Before he came along the fastest bricklayer could lay 120 bricks per hour. The record using his methods was 450. He had a very precise process and used special scaffolds to keep the bricklayer at the proper working height in relation to the building, there are at least 10 versions of that scaffold on the market today.