Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: brian Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Serial, concurrent, parallel Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 23:02:28 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: brian MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii;format=flowed Injection-Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:02:40 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7746d4caea5aa856237fb1016f9431a3"; logging-data="3900584"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18TPrsom1HbrTIRTNb8j9Vi" User-Agent: Turnpike/6.07-S () Cancel-Lock: sha1:6oOcFQpbnn1gpyLg1meJvKrOE/w= Bytes: 2158 In message , john larkin writes >On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:10:37 +0000, brian >wrote: > >>In message , Don Y >> 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 . -- Brian Howie