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How Flow Works & Other Curiosities • James Lewis • YOW! 2023
Explore flow and throughput, optimizing workflow and leveraging infrastructure as a service while overcoming roadblocks and navigating scarce resources and legacy systems.
- 10-20X increase in throughput by reducing batch size
- Flow of work is limited by the number of people in your ops team
- Infrastructure as a service platforms (AWS) are MMC queues where C tends to infinity
- Agent-based models can help optimize for flow
- Value stream maps are pretty easy to read
- Queues are everywhere in organizations (wait times, concurrency, etc.)
- People are expensive and scarce resources
- Infrastructure controls for Western democracies (Gini coefficients)
- The 40 limit for writing code and review processes
- Speed limit for the highway dynamically adjusts based on the number of cars on the road
- Artificial intelligence is already here (companies names)
- Team Topologies and legacy displacement
- Patterns of legacy displacement and the importance of visualizing systems of work
- Why traveling slower often makes you go faster