My favorite business course in undergrad was production operations management. Some time later I realized that in data engineering, critical path analysis is useful for optimizing directed acyclic graphs.
For example, it doesn't make sense to optimize the longest running task when it's not on the critical path. If you are optimizing for $, sure. But for time, there are better tasks to optimize.
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My favorite business course in undergrad was production operations management. Some time later I realized that in data engineering, critical path analysis is useful for optimizing directed acyclic graphs.
For example, it doesn't make sense to optimize the longest running task when it's not on the critical path. If you are optimizing for $, sure. But for time, there are better tasks to optimize.