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Jason Yip<p>Re: <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TheoryOfConstraints" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheoryOfConstraints</span></a> being better than <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Lean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lean</span></a> </p><p>"TPS does not allow a bottleneck to set the pace of the value stream." <a href="https://blog.gembaacademy.com/2007/04/19/toc-bottleneck-versus-lean-pacemaker_19/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.gembaacademy.com/2007/04/</span><span class="invisible">19/toc-bottleneck-versus-lean-pacemaker_19/</span></a></p><p>From Principles of Product Development Flow by Don Reinertsen (<a href="https://amzn.to/43MW3X0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">amzn.to/43MW3X0</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>)</p><p>"The 100-fold improvement ... was not achieved by finding bottlenecks and adding capacity to the bottlenecks. It was achieved by reducing batch size."</p><p>"...the bottlenecks of product development are stochastic bottlenecks, not deterministic ones"</p>
Otto Rask<p>To everyone saying they feel so productive when using an "AI" coding tool to make them code faster:</p><p>Congratulations on working in an organization where all the hard problems have been solved, and where coding speed is truly the last bottleneck left to be solved.</p><p><a href="https://piipitin.fi/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a> <a href="https://piipitin.fi/tags/TheoryOfConstraints" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheoryOfConstraints</span></a> <a href="https://piipitin.fi/tags/Lean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lean</span></a> <a href="https://piipitin.fi/tags/Software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Software</span></a> <a href="https://piipitin.fi/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://piipitin.fi/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://piipitin.fi/tags/Copilot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Copilot</span></a> <a href="https://piipitin.fi/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a> <a href="https://piipitin.fi/tags/Claude" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Claude</span></a> <a href="https://piipitin.fi/tags/DeepSeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeek</span></a> <a href="https://piipitin.fi/tags/SoftwareDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwareDevelopment</span></a></p>
Bill Seitz<p>ICYMI the MrBeast memo recommended that all his employees read Goldratt's "The Goal". <a href="https://toolsforthought.social/tags/TheoryOfConstraints" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheoryOfConstraints</span></a></p>
Michael Hartle<p>Introducing a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TeamTopologies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeamTopologies</span></a> enabling team into your org implies that there are enough teams that have the time, motivation and matching priorities to get enabled.</p><p>Competing against mismatched priorities and out-of-bounds work-in-progress is an uphill battle at best. Align priorities first and maintain alignment with <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FlightLevels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlightLevels</span></a>, apply the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TheoryOfConstraints" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheoryOfConstraints</span></a> to the work flowing between the teams, think about how teams work together with <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TeamTopologies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeamTopologies</span></a>.</p>
Emacsen<p>I want to do more blogging this year. Here's my first blog post of 2024: </p><p>I use Profit First, the Theory of Constraints, and Plain Text Accounting to help my small business</p><p>Using Profit First, The Theory of Constraints</p><p><a href="https://blog.emacsen.net/profit-first-constraints-plain-text-accounting.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.emacsen.net/profit-first-</span><span class="invisible">constraints-plain-text-accounting.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://emacsen.net/tags/ProfitFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProfitFirst</span></a> <a href="https://emacsen.net/tags/TheoryOfConstraints" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheoryOfConstraints</span></a> <a href="https://emacsen.net/tags/PlainTextAccounting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlainTextAccounting</span></a></p>
Jason Yip<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Kanban" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kanban</span></a> systems use local WIP constraints; <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TheoryOfConstraints" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheoryOfConstraints</span></a> systems use global WIP constraints.</p><p>Local feedback loops are inherently faster than global feedback loops.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ThePrinciplesOfProductDevelopmentFlow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThePrinciplesOfProductDevelopmentFlow</span></a></p>
Benjamin P. Taylor<p>The latest antlerboy / RedQuadrant recommended! <a href="https://paper.li/antlerboy/recommended?edition_id=4a15bb60-c68d-11ed-81ea-fa163ed80008" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">paper.li/antlerboy/recommended</span><span class="invisible">?edition_id=4a15bb60-c68d-11ed-81ea-fa163ed80008</span></a> Thanks to @SputnikInt @Bob__Hudson @JudithFreedman <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/theoryofconstraints" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theoryofconstraints</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/deming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deming</span></a></p>
Team Topologies<p>"Charles Humble talks to Apostolis Apostolidis (aka Toli) and Andy Norton from Cinch, arguably one of the UKs most successful start-ups. They discuss: how the company got started, how <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TeamTopologies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeamTopologies</span></a>, the Spotify Model, and the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheoryofConstraints" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheoryofConstraints</span></a> influenced how the organisation was designed; building a learning organisation; migrating from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kubernetes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kubernetes</span></a> to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Serverless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Serverless</span></a>; and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Observability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Observability</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SRE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SRE</span></a> practices at the firm. " Charles Humble</p><p><a href="https://blog.container-solutions.com/cinch-on-team-topologies-theory-of-constraints-and-serverless?s=31" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.container-solutions.com/c</span><span class="invisible">inch-on-team-topologies-theory-of-constraints-and-serverless?s=31</span></a></p>
Trunk-Based Thierry<p>Choosing between quality or speed of delivery is a false dichotomy.</p><p>Always choose for quality, speed will follow, always!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lean</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/theoryofconstraints" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theoryofconstraints</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quality</span></a></p>
George Dinwiddie<p>Have you ever noticed how the Theory of Constraints can lead you down the DevOps path?</p><p>I did a few years ago, and am sharing it publicly.</p><p><a href="https://idiacomputing.com/pub/Implementing_DevOps_using_the_Theory_of_Constraints.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">idiacomputing.com/pub/Implemen</span><span class="invisible">ting_DevOps_using_the_Theory_of_Constraints.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DevOps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DevOps</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ToC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ToC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheoryOfConstraints" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheoryOfConstraints</span></a></p>
Cecilie 🧙‍♀️<p>My biggest trouble with advocating against <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/PullRequests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PullRequests</span></a> and gating merges behind <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/CodeReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CodeReview</span></a> is that it is legimately effective for finding defects when done thoroughly. You get something valuable for the cost in review work, increased batch sizes, and multitasking. It makes it harder to convince myself and others that it's better to drop it for the sake of flow.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/SoftwareEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwareEngineering</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/SoftwareDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwareDevelopment</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/TheoryOfConstraints" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheoryOfConstraints</span></a><br><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/TrunkBasedDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrunkBasedDevelopment</span></a></p>
Dirk-Jan Swagerman<p>“What improves developer productivity?” is the wrong question</p><p><a href="https://jchyip.medium.com/what-improves-developer-productivity-is-the-wrong-question-dcd2fc08531d" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jchyip.medium.com/what-improve</span><span class="invisible">s-developer-productivity-is-the-wrong-question-dcd2fc08531d</span></a></p><p>Found via the LinkedIn feed of <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@d_stepanovic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>d_stepanovic</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://systems.social/tags/SoftwareEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwareEngineering</span></a><br><a href="https://systems.social/tags/Flow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Flow</span></a><br><a href="https://systems.social/tags/TheoryOfConstraints" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheoryOfConstraints</span></a></p>