Martin Thompson talks about this in several of his talks. The same queuing theory that applies to software should also apply to dev teams - that service respons

Martin Thompson talks about this in several of his talks. The same queuing theory that applies to software should also apply to dev teams - that service response time (or I guess delivery of features) slows down exponentially, not linearly, as utilization increases beyond a critical threshold (70% ?). He explains this at around 5m25s in this talk [1] - another point relevant to this thread at 9m30s. Some dev teams could be better at applying back pressure in their processes to avoid inundating themselves with too-high utilization and falling into exponential team slow down. [1] https://youtu.be/03GsLxVdVzU https://youtu.be/03GsLxVdVzU [2] https://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/2012/05/apply-back-pressure-when-overloaded.html?m=1 https://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/2012/05/apply-back-...