The Principles of Product Development Flow

This episode continues the theme of the past two episodes. Tl;DR: understand the price of work, optimize for flow through queues, use WIP constraints, reduce batch sizes, and prefer decentralization.

Free Resources

• NEW! The Small Batches Slack App for Teams
• Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
• The Flow Collective
• DevOps Email Course
• Project to Product Email Course

Links

• Adam Hawkins on Twitter
• Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
• Adam Hawkins' website
• Principles of Product Development Flow
• Episode 59: Time Thieves
• Episode 58: Queuing Theory

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