Suddenly, I remember how Erik described the importance of preventive work, such as the monitoring project. I say, “I don’t care how important everyone thinks their project is. We need to know whether it increases our capacity at our constraint, which is still Brent. Unless the project reduces his workload or enables someone else to take it over, maybe we shouldn’t even be doing it. On the other hand, if a project doesn’t even require Brent, there’s no reason we shouldn’t just do it.”
