Getting Out of Quicksand, With DevOps!
summary
Claims that high utilization explodes wait time via queuing theory (Kingman): 90% utilization -> 9x wait and focus shifts from utilization to throughput. Concrete fixes and numbers: automated iOS releases with Fastlane + Jenkins in ~20 minutes after about a week of setup, a 26-hour build pipeline improved by 36% by moving jobs to an SSD (26-hour pipeline -> 36% speedup). Process changes include quantifying activity, cutting WIP, 20% time for improvements and building a self‑service CI/CD pipeline that actually reduces backlog.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 9:08Queuing Theory
- 15:53How To Get out of Quicksand
- 21:15Fastlane
- 23:07Make the Things That Your Team Is Currently Working on Visible
- 29:20Less Is More
- 32:34Approaches to Automation
- 33:43The Paradox of Automation
- 36:24The Improvement Cutter
- 36:54Collect Improvement Ideas and Prioritize Them
- 39:05Recap
- 39:32Quantify the Work and Set Goals
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