S1E02 The problems at full capacity utilisation

"if everyone is busy we must be productive"

"if someone is idle there must be spare capacity to be utilised"

Normal Distribution

Gamma distribution

Now what?

Familiar buzz words gets thrown around:

• Prioritisation
• Expediting
• Reallocation
• Task switching
• Management focus

"adding human resources to a late software project makes it later" - Brook's Law

1. Communicate risk early
2. Build slack into the plan
3. Realise that changing adds overhead

The Phoenix Project by George Spafford, Gene Kim, Kevin Behr

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