#theoryofconstraints — Public Fediverse posts

"If they need to chase five different people for incomplete documents, you're not going to speed up said process by adding more lawyers to the department."

#ai #theoryofconstraints #lean #productivity

https://frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2026-05-15-i-dont-think-ai-will-make-your-processes-go-faster/

@gairdeachas @gutenberg_org #theoryofconstraints. Goldratt at Gutenberg.

#TheoryOfConstraints #Gokdratt #Bottlenecks #ClaudeCode #LLM #ProductOwner

AI Coding Made Code Review the Bottleneck. Now What? - Scrum.org Blog (Yuval Yeret · Yuval Yeret) https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/ai-coding-made-code-review-bottleneck-now-what

#scrumDotOrg #AgileAI #Scrum #Agile #TheoryOfConstraints

It seems to me that
#Ukraine has figured out how to lay a siege from the inside out.
Typically a siege prevents goods from entering the target.
Ukranian kinetic sanctions prevent goods from leaving Russia. They are rewriting everything we knew about war and I suspect there are implications for #infosec regarding institutional awareness of defense-in-depth, dependency management, etc.

I notice indicators that Ukraine's military is using iterative development cycles and continuous improvement similar to #DevOps , #TheoryOfConstraints and Lean Production.

I wonder if there's discussion of this in Ukranian/Russian language forums because I don't see much in English (or Spanish).

@mariyadelano

"If they need to chase five different people for incomplete documents, you're not going to speed up said process by adding more lawyers to the department."

#ai #theoryofconstraints #lean #productivity

https://frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2026-05-15-i-dont-think-ai-will-make-your-processes-go-faster/

"When we deploy a digital tool like email to speed up communication, or generative AI to create (sloppy) slide presentations quickly, we don’t automatically become better at our jobs. If these steps don’t improve the bottleneck in our process – the key link where the real value is produced – then, as in the chicken coop example, they’re just as likely to create pile-ups and distraction, without actually boosting our true productivity."

https://calnewport.com/on-bottlenecks-and-productivity/

#GenerativeAI #TheoryOfConstraints

Excellent analysis in the article linked here -

"If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems"

And some comical turns of phrase as well :-)

https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-thought-the-speed-of-writing-code-was-your-problem-you-have-bigger-problems

Link shared here earlier by @RuthMalan - thanks!
(I don't know if Andrew Murphy the author is on Fedi?)

#software #teams #LLMs #TheoryOfConstraints

Most organizations have no problem with output, but rather with responding to signals. This is a problem because when t(decision) > t(production), the system becomes structurally disconnected from reality. It is completely worthless to deliver faster if decisions take too long, because then any knowledge gained is immediately devalued.

A thread 🧵

#SystemsThinking #WorkFeedbackLoop #Flow #TheoryOfConstraints #DecisionLatency

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Revolutionizers Bundle https://leanpub.com/b/revolutionizers by Edward W. Barnard is the featured bundle on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com #ComputerProgramming #Ai #SoftwareEngineering #TheoryOfConstraints #ComputerScience #Education #Gpt

The Revolutionizers Bundle brings together all four books in the series, plus two free companion essays, into one integrated exploration of how ideas evolve, how technology transforms, and how everyday people can become innovators.

Find it on Leanpub!

Bottlenecks und Constraints

Ein System ist nur so schnell wie sein langsamstes Element – der Engpass bestimmt den Takt. Wer Teile des Systems optimiert, ohne den Engpass zu berücksichtigen, verschlimmert die Lage: Mehr Geschwindigkeit vor dem Engpass führt nur zu Stau.

https://no-bullshit-agile.de/wip/

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#theoryofconstraints #botteeneck

Meanwhile in DevOps No.33.

Doug optimizes Work Station 1.

#DevOps #Work #TheoryOfConstraints

AI strengths: Finding patterns, building rapid prototypes, creating automations. But are you applying these strengths where they matter? 🌱 My 5 simple questions help determine if your AI implementation helps at the actual bottleneck or makes things worse. https://agilepainrelief.com/blog/is-ai-making-your-organization-fragile-or-more-resilient/ #AI #TheoryOfConstraints

Re: #TheoryOfConstraints being better than #Lean

"TPS does not allow a bottleneck to set the pace of the value stream." https://blog.gembaacademy.com/2007/04/19/toc-bottleneck-versus-lean-pacemaker_19/

From Principles of Product Development Flow by Don Reinertsen (https://amzn.to/43MW3X0)

"The 100-fold improvement ... was not achieved by finding bottlenecks and adding capacity to the bottlenecks. It was achieved by reducing batch size."

"...the bottlenecks of product development are stochastic bottlenecks, not deterministic ones"

To everyone saying they feel so productive when using an "AI" coding tool to make them code faster:

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.

#Programming #TheoryOfConstraints #Lean #Software #AI #LLM #Copilot #ChatGPT #Claude #DeepSeek #SoftwareDevelopment

Meanwhile in DevOps No.12.

#TheoryOfConstraints #TheGoal

Introducing a #TeamTopologies enabling team into your org implies that there are enough teams that have the time, motivation and matching priorities to get enabled.

Competing against mismatched priorities and out-of-bounds work-in-progress is an uphill battle at best. Align priorities first and maintain alignment with #FlightLevels, apply the #TheoryOfConstraints to the work flowing between the teams, think about how teams work together with #TeamTopologies.

I was asked today about #DrumBufferRope within the #TheoryOfConstraints. Nobody I know relies on it; there are a number of criticisms including that it asserts `P=NP`. Make up your own mind!

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Constraints_in_streamline_manufacturing#Drum-Buffer-Rope
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_constraints#Claimed_suboptimality_of_drum-buffer-rope
- https://pm.stackexchange.com/q/35307/4271

I want to do more blogging this year. Here's my first blog post of 2024:

I use Profit First, the Theory of Constraints, and Plain Text Accounting to help my small business

Using Profit First, The Theory of Constraints

https://blog.emacsen.net/profit-first-constraints-plain-text-accounting.html

#ProfitFirst #TheoryOfConstraints #PlainTextAccounting

I once raised the idea of an #Unconference in an org, with a 250-strong dev team. The CTO squashed it based upon his view that the org needed outside expertise to fill knowledge gaps.
What he didn't realise is that the org already had the knowledge he was so keen to pay speakers thousands of pounds for, it was just unevenly distributed and they couldn't apply it because of systemic constraints.
In the end they spent 50k for negligible benefit.
#Goldratt #TheoryOfConstraints

#Kanban systems use local WIP constraints; #TheoryOfConstraints systems use global WIP constraints.

Local feedback loops are inherently faster than global feedback loops.

#ThePrinciplesOfProductDevelopmentFlow

The latest antlerboy / RedQuadrant recommended! https://paper.li/antlerboy/recommended?edition_id=4a15bb60-c68d-11ed-81ea-fa163ed80008 Thanks to @SputnikInt @Bob__Hudson @JudithFreedman #theoryofconstraints #deming

"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 #TeamTopologies, the Spotify Model, and the #TheoryofConstraints influenced how the organisation was designed; building a learning organisation; migrating from #Kubernetes to #Serverless; and #Observability and #SRE practices at the firm. " Charles Humble

https://blog.container-solutions.com/cinch-on-team-topologies-theory-of-constraints-and-serverless?s=31

Choosing between quality or speed of delivery is a false dichotomy.

Always choose for quality, speed will follow, always!

#lean #theoryofconstraints #quality

Have you ever noticed how the Theory of Constraints can lead you down the DevOps path?

I did a few years ago, and am sharing it publicly.

https://idiacomputing.com/pub/Implementing_DevOps_using_the_Theory_of_Constraints.pdf

#DevOps #ToC #TheoryOfConstraints