Hackolade

One of the most important concepts in Goldratt's "Throughput Accounting" is that inventory (something you've built or spent time on) that has not been released into the customer's hands) is a financial liability. It's money spent with no balancing revenue. Every bit of software that sits idle waiting for someone to work on it is a financial liability—money lost. Opportunity cost is a big part of that. You're paying to write non-revenue-producing software while at the same time losing the money you could have made had it been released earlier—a 2x hit. Of course, delayed feedback ultimately leads to either building the wrong thing or massively expensive rewrites. More money lost. Lots of it. A long backlog that people have put effort into creating and maintaining is inventory—more money lost. Every minute waiting for QA or a DBA decision is money lost. That 10x programmer creating work that's waiting to be handled by the next person in line—money lost. The list is endless. You want to be more profitable? Don't "manage" these delays and dependencies, eliminate them..