Getting Buy-In: Overcoming Larman's Law
summary
Argues that Larman’s Law is best overcome with many small, low-risk experiments targeted at real pain points, using value‑stream mapping and Mike Rother’s improvement kata to pick the next step. Claims reducing work‑in‑progress to one reliably doubles or triples throughput; adopting mob/ensemble programming can remove daily standups and integration meetings, yielding back‑of‑napkin savings in the millions and a faster path to revenue via the time value of money.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:14Larman's Law of organizational behavior
- 12:39Conway's Law
- 15:12How to make this all work
- 22:35How to speak to managers
- 28:35Value Stream Mapping
- 35:49Time value of money
- 53:40Summary
- 55:57Outro
