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[2018.12 Meetup] [TALK #1] Manuel Pais - Limiting WIP with Pastéis de Belém
One of the 6 Lightning talks of December 2018 DevOps Lisbon MeetUp.
DevOps Lisbon
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Transcript
Limiting WIP with Pastéis de Belém
About me Manuel Pais MS Software Eng @manupaisable manuelpais.net
[email protected]
DevOps and Delivery Consultant Focused on teams and flow 2 @manupaisable | manuelpais.net
Formula #1 3 @manupaisable | manuelpais.net
Flow efficiency = “work normally spends 85% of its lifecycle
waiting on something” http://leankanban.com/flow-efficiency-a-great-metric-you-probably-arent-using @manupaisable | manuelpais.net 4
Flow efficiency = “work spends 85% of its lifecycle waiting
on something” http://leankanban.com/flow-efficiency-a-great-metric-you-probably-arent-using @manupaisable | manuelpais.net 5
issue is not how long it takes to do something…
issue is how long we’re waiting @manupaisable | manuelpais.net 6
@manupaisable | manuelpais.net 7
Formula #2 8 @manupaisable | manuelpais.net
Little’s Law L = λW “work noom/flow-efficiency-a-great-metric-you-probably-arent-using @manupaisable | manuelpais.net
9
Little’s Law for Software L = λW “work noom/flow-efficiency-a-great-metric-you-probably-arent-using @manupaisable
| manuelpais.net 10
Little’s Law for Software L = λW Work In Progress
(WIP) = Throughput x Cycle Time noom/flow-efficiency-a-great-metric-you-probably-arent-using @manupaisable | manuelpais.net 11
Work In Progress (WIP) = Throughput x Cycle Time @manupaisable
| manuelpais.net 12 What happens when we start more work? Work takes longer to finish!
Work In Progress (WIP) = Throughput x Cycle Time @manupaisable
| manuelpais.net 13 What happens when we start more work? Work takes longer to finish!
@manupaisable | manuelpais.net 14
@manupaisable | manuelpais.net 15
@manupaisable | manuelpais.net 16 But… we can limit WIP !
No approvals to ask for. No people to hire. No tooling to learn. Just do it!
@manupaisable | manuelpais.net 17 Don’t try this at home WIP
Limit < # team members
@manupaisable | manuelpais.net 18
@manupaisable | manuelpais.net 19 STOP starting START finishing
@manupaisable | manuelpais.net 20 https://twitter.com/johncutlefish/status/1063702339050070016 @johncutlefish Don G. Reinertsen, 2009,
ples ‘The Principles of Product Development Flow’ Dominica DeGrandis, 2017, ‘Making Work Visible’ Victoria Morgan-Smith, 2016, LondonCD meetup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfCnjfxSk0M