AgileLnL - The Software Industry's Dangerous Love Affair With Overproduction
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AI made us more productive than ever, yet we're busier and more overwhelmed than before. Overproduction might be at play, and if we're not careful, the symptoms and waste will only increase.
Folks are also clamoring that coding isn't the bottleneck, but with everything changing, how do you know what to spend energy fixing? The Theory of Constraints has an answer and will help every organization focus on fixing the right things, instead of the "new" thing.
The Talk
- The final recording will be placed here later.
- Download the slides!
- A shorter talk only on overproduction is available to watch here.
Play with it yourself. Toggle the buffer, the drum, and the rope, and watch what happens to the piles.
Your Next Step
Seeing overproduction is the easy part. Finding where it's hiding in your organization, and which step is really setting your pace, is where most people get stuck. I'm happy to help you think it through. Grab 30 minutes with me.
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Keep Going
- Who Moved My Bottleneck: the essay version of the argument, with the takt time math spelled out.