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From: brian <nospam@b-howie.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Serial, concurrent, parallel
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 23:02:28 +0000
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In message <rraiojlip0hl9vjaa742fmtq9dpmo2v2l1@4ax.com>, john larkin 
<JL@gct.com> writes
>On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:10:37 +0000, brian <nospam@b-howie.co.uk>
>wrote:
>
>>In message <vm69a2$2h52d$1@dont-email.me>, Don Y
>><blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> writes
>>>I am surprised (disturbed?) at the problems people seem to have
>>>sorting these things out in their thought processes.  I don't
>>>*believe* people think strictly "serially" but I am beginning to
>>>question that belief as I witness smart/capable people stuck in
>>>that mindset!
>>
>>It's simple project engineering and resource management . PERT ,
>>Critical path analysis, lead times , Gantt charts, even Microsoft
>>Project if you must. You must be talking to non-engineers.
>>
>>Brian
>
>The more such management tools that you use, the slower a project will
>go.
>
>The key observation is that when things are serialized, they happen
>sequentially.
>

PERT and the  like handles parallel processing paths , in fact it almost 
forces you do it . When things are concurrent they happen in parallel .

B .
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Brian Howie