{"id":84,"date":"2005-01-17T14:57:24","date_gmt":"2005-01-17T14:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=84"},"modified":"2005-01-17T14:57:24","modified_gmt":"2005-01-17T14:57:24","slug":"mixing-metaphors-with-mixed-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Mixing metaphors with mixed results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/martinfowler.com\/bliki\/MetaphoricQuestioning.html\">article<\/a> from Martin Fowler about the dangers of using metaphoric reasoning when comparing professions. To quote Martin<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8230; it all comes down to how you use the metaphor. Comparing to another activity is useful if it helps you formulate questions, it&#8217;s dangerous when you use it to justify answers.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>. However, while I agree with the sentiment of the article I think there&#8217;s a place for metaphoric reasoning in justifying answers aswell. For example lean manufacturing involves the reduction &#038; indeed elimination of inventory in order to reduce unnecessary costs &#038; improve manufacturing responsiveness. It depends on how you bound and interpret the analogy. Understanding both the <b>articles<\/b> and the <b>aims<\/b>. A certain amount of inventory will always be required &#8220;in the pipeline&#8221; to enable manufacturing to take place. In the same way that an amount of upfront documentation is required. Complete elimination of either is not the real goal, it&#8217;s optimisation of the manufacturing process through waste reduction &#038; more appropriate &#038; flexible task scheduling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent article from Martin Fowler about the dangers of using metaphoric reasoning when comparing professions. To quote Martin &#8230; it all comes down to how you use the metaphor. Comparing to another activity is useful if it helps you formulate questions, it&#8217;s dangerous when you use it to justify answers. . However, while I agree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}