Are we really moving faster?
summary
Built a Raspberry Pi dashboard (Smashing) pulling Jenkins, GitHub and Jira to track DORA and Flow metrics, reduced build time to one third and containerized with Docker, yet discovered 263 done-but-not-released items piling up. Introduced value stream mapping, prioritized fixes by impact vs effort, moved from quarterly releases to monthly releases, shifting the flow-time peak from ~120 days to ~30 days within four months. Cultural work (book clubs, coalition, short wins) proves necessary to sustain the faster feedback loop.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 1:45A fundamental question: Are we really moving faster?
- 4:30Fast physical feedback & visibility of problems
- 9:11Epiphany: We are creating too much inventory
- 13:15Product delivery
- 14:38Product Design and Development
- 20:23Epiphany II: We will never be able to run fast enough
- 22:44Value Stream Mapping
- 23:36non value adding activities
- 30:45Are we really moving faster? (Feb 2021)
- 34:19The final step?
- 36:13Summary
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