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“PRODUCTIVITY”
IS
KILLING
US
How
Effort
Metrics
and
Utilization
Constrict
the
Flow
of
Value
@AdamYuret Adam.Yuret@gmail.com

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Who
Is
This
Guy?!
Husband,
Dad,
Humanistic
Lean
Flow-‐Based
Systems-‐
Thinking
Consultant
at
Context
driven
Agility
(CDA)
Consulting,
Sailor

My
Two
Favorite
People

My
Other
Interest

Learning

Why
Are
We
Here?

Oh
Right,
at
This
Session
Discuss
how
the
relentless
pursuit
of
productivity
is
constraining
our
ability
to
effectively
deliver
value
to
our
customers
and
businesses.
!
Discuss
some
alternatives
to
this
approach
of
optimizing
for
busyness.

But
First,
an
Apology

Resource
Efficiency
Nightmare:
0%
Utilization
Waste @AdamYuret Adam.Yuret@gmail.com

~100%
Resource
Efficiency

“Resource”
Efficiency
Nightmare
0%
Utilization

That
Guy
Woke
Up
and
Said…

What
Can
Happen
When
“Agile”
Turns
Up?

What
Are
Legalistic
Frameworks?

!
!
!
● Prescriptive:
Follow
these
rules
and
Agile
hyper-‐
productivity
will
be
your
reward.

!
!
!
● Castigate
when
the
rules
are
not
followed.

!
!
!
● Take
pride
in
following
those
rules.

!
!
!
● Measure
success
based
on
compliance
to
the
rules.

!
!
!
● Blame
failure
on
lack
of
strict
adherence
to
the
rules.

Some
Agile
Adoption
Antipatterns

Focus
on
Compliance
to
the
Framework
Over
Value

Status
reporting
stand-‐up
meetings
!
!
!
● What
did
you
do
yesterday?
!
● What
will
you
do
today?
!
● Any
impediments?

Splitting
Teams
&
Creating
Dependencies

Limit
WIP/Visualize
Flow
of
Value

Limit
Work
In
Progress
Excessive
Work
in
Progress
(WIP)
is
the
enemy
of
flow.
By
setting
limits
to
work
in
progress
we
can
enable
greater
flow.

If
We
Measure
Busyness,
We’ll
Create
More
Busyness.

Little’s
Law

What
is
Failure
Demand?
Traditional
management
thinking
treats
all
demand
as
equal.
There
is
work
to
be
done
and
people
who
do
the
work.
Failure
Demand
is
demand
that
originates
from
a
failure
to
have
done
something
right
in
the
first
place.
Not
all
productivity
is
desirable.

Typical
Example
of
Failure
Demand

Product
Development
Example
!
Agile
team
produces
growing
velocity
but,
as
they
speed
features
out
the
door,
bugs
are
introduced.
When
bugs
come
into
the
backlog
they’re
assigned
velocity
points.
It
is
theoretically
possible,
therefore,
to
have
a
team
producing
zero
value
while
increasing
velocity
fixing
bugs.

Pitfalls
of
Ignoring
Failure
Demand

Protecting
Silos
From
Failure
Demand
Creates
More…

“Dumpster
Teams”
● In
order
to
keep
developers
typing
at
maximum
utilization,
we
create
teams
to
absorb
the
failure
demand
caused
by
developers
typing
at
maximum
utilization.
These
teams
often
have
unlimited
WIP
and
must
consume
an
unending
stream
of
demand.
This
also
hides
the
problems
from
the
people
creating
them.

Value
Demand

Quantify
Value

Make
Strategic
Intents
Visible

Clear
Priorities
Are
Essential
To
Distributed
Decision-‐Making

Stephen
Bungay:
Directed
Opportunism

The
Organization
is
Not
a
Machine,
But
an
Organism,
a
Set
of
Human
Relationships.

In
Order
to
Have
High
Autonomy,
High
Alignment
is
Needed.
To
have
High
Alignment,
Strategic
Clarity
is
Needed.

Study
This
Guy’s
Work

Principles
of
Product
Development
Flow

Utilization
&
Queuing
Theory

Rules
Are
Waste

Create
Slack

Three
Types
of
Slack
!
● Variability
Buffer
!
● Learning
!
● Innovation

Slack
as
Variability
Buffer

!
!
Lean
Decision
Filter
Flow
Trumps
Waste
!
Value
Trumps
Flow

What
Does
That
Mean?
Flow
Trumps
Waste

Lean
Decision
Filter
Value
Trumps
Flow

! In
Unit
Hour
Utilization
general,
reliability
is
the
ability
of
a
person
or
system
to
perform
and
maintain
its
functions
in
routine
circumstances
as
well
as
in
hostile
or
unexpected
circumstances.
In
the
case
of
emergency
services,
reliability
looks
at
actual
incident
history
data
to
measure
historical
performance
in
accordance
with
adopted
performance
measures.
!
A
unit
unavailable
for
response
provides
no
service
to
the
community.
The
unit
may
be
out
of
service
for
a
multitude
of
reasons
including;
another
emergency
response,
training,
maintenance,
etc.
If
a
unit
is
not
available
80%
of
the
time,
it
is
not
reasonable
to
expect
the
unit
to
perform
at
the
80th
percentile.
!
….
Poor
availability
negatively
influences
response
times.

Slack
For
Learning

Read
a
Book

Capability
Balancing

Lean
Coffee

Slack
For
Innovation

What
Happens
Without
Slack?
!
● Failure
Demand
● Silos:“Dumpster
Teams”
●Overloaded
Bottlenecks
● Deadline-‐Driven
Development
● Exponential
Delays

Play

A
Brief
Digression
Into
Burndowns

Limit
WIP,
Eliminate
Task-‐Tracking

Team
Testimonials
“Limiting
our
work
in
progress
so
we
focused
on
completion
was
a
big
deal
for
us.
It
felt
better
to
have
1
story
than
5
tasks
in
progress.”
–Lead
Developer
!
“Development
was
very
helpful
with
testing,
volunteering
to
clear
impediments
and
helping
us
test
during
the
sprint.”
–Lead
Tester
!
“The
team
is
excited
and
helping
each
other
out
during
stand-‐up
and
working
together
in
the
War
Room”
–PM/SM

Focus
On
Value

A
System
Is
Not
The
Sum
of
It’s
Parts

Books

THANK
YOU!
@AdamYuret Sayat.me/ayuret Adam.Yuret@gmail.com

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