如Yourdon所述，美国程序员在过去40年中，一直缺乏衡量成本、生产率和质量的客观、可信的方法。

As Yourdon points out, American programmers have gone forty years without an objective, credible way to measure cost, productivity, and quality.

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时间作为一种刚性稀缺资源，将成为衡量成本的基本单位，在不同的管理层面上显现出重要的基础意义。

As a kind of scarcity source, time will be the basic unit to measure cost and show us an important basic sense at the various levels of management.

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用这种方法去改善也会带来更少的可衡量成本的失效，正是他们学会可以更好的使用被认为已是淘汰的设备并可以将花费推迟到未来某个时间点。

This approach to kaizen has also led to less measurable cost avoidance where they learned to better use equipment that was considered obsolete and pushed back the expense at some point in the future.

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And you remember, we considered some examples of cost-benefit analysis, but a lot of people were unhappy with cost-benefit analysis when it came to placing dollar value on human life.

我们还思考了些成本效益分析的例子，但许多人并不赞同,成本效益分析用金钱来衡量人的生命。

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