Reinertsen As Quotes & Sayings

No matter who you are, you will be put abed at last with a shovel. — Austin O'Malley

Since high capacity utilization simultaneously raises efficiency and increases delay cost, we need to look at the combined impact of these two factors. We can only do so if we express both factors in the same unit of measure, life-cycle profits. If we do this, we will always conclude that operating a product development process near full utilization is an economic disaster. — Donald G. Reinertsen

I was 50 years old and hadn't been to bed with a woman for four years. I had no women friends. I looked at them as I passed them on the streets or wherever I saw them, but I looked at them without yearning and with a sense of futility. I masturbated regularly, but the idea of having a relationship with a woman- even on non-sexual terms-was beyond my imagination. — Charles Bukowski

Please subdue the anguish of your soul. Nobody is destined only to happiness or to pain. The wheel of life takes one up and down by turn. — Kalidasa

If you are going to worry about it, I won't. — Donald G. Reinertsen

without variability, we cannot innovate. Product development produces the recipes for products, not the products themselves. If a design does not change, there can be no value-added. But, when we change a design, we introduce uncertainty and variability in outcomes. We cannot eliminate all variability without eliminating all value-added. — Donald G. Reinertsen

The more detailed we made our plans, the longer our cycle times became — Donald G. Reinertsen

We should not prioritize on the basis of project profitability, but rather on how this profitability is affected by delay. — Donald G. Reinertsen

Time is but a mode of thought — E. Nesbit

People make moves like the Pawn.
(Let's go in the real world, look how they walk, from one up two max blocks they can take... so far it's sounds like the moves of pawn. People can be the king and the queen...) — Deyth Banger

He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed. — Frank Herbert

If we have drifted 10 heads above the zero line in our coin flip experiment, what is the probability of getting 10 tails in a row to return us to zero? About 1 in 1,000. — Donald G. Reinertsen

Reducing risk, which is the primary mission of testing, clearly creates economic value for product developers. In fact, reducing risk is so centrally important to product development that it is indispensable for us to quantify its economic impact. — Donald G. Reinertsen

In product development, our greatest waste is not unproductive engineers, but work products sitting idle in process queues. — Donald G. Reinertsen

It's all connected with the belief human love is conditional. But human love isn't conditional. No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it's just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love. — Donald Miller

I'm not desperate but I know that some day I'll be the coach again of some team. — Diego Maradona

Stop Destroying Shareholder Value — Miles Anthony Smith

In our factories, we create flexibility by paying more to workers who can work at more stations on a production line. We value flexibility, and we pay for it. In contrast, most product development organizations exclusively reward specialization. — Donald G. Reinertsen