Eliyahu Goldratt

Foreword

By Edo Segal

The question that broke my productivity obsession was not about productivity.

It was about a boy scout named Herbie.

I had been living inside the acceleration for months. Claude Code had turned my team into something I barely recognized — twenty engineers producing at a rate that made our old roadmaps look quaint. Every metric pointed up. Velocity had tripled. Features shipped weekly instead of quarterly. The dashboards glowed green. I felt like I was winning.

Then I noticed the pile.

Not on a factory floor. In my own head. Features generated but not evaluated. Design directions explored but not decided on. Alternatives sitting in review queues, half-examined, decaying in relevance while I generated more. I was producing faster than I could think about what I was producing.