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If anyone wants a much more in-depth look at the concepts behind this, I can't recommend "The Goal" by Eliyahu M. Goldratt enough. It's a bit like The Phoenix P
by mjfisher 6y ago
If anyone wants a much more in-depth look at the concepts behind this, I can't recommend "The Goal" by Eliyahu M. Goldratt enough. It's a bit like The Phoenix Project, in that it's a novel about improving flow in delivery processes, but it's much, much better, and goes into way more practical depth. You'll learn about not just WIP, but floating bottlenecks, buffers, batch sizes, etc. that turn out to be universally useful concepts. The audiobook is especially good - easily the most practically applicable book in the field I've come across. Go read it/listen to it.
- truemped 6y agoAuthor here. I loved "The Goal" even more than the Unicorn Project. Use the Theory of Constraints to identify your bottleneck and then limit WIP at the bottleneck or elevate it. By hiring, optimizing... You are right though: go read The Goal everyone!
- occz 6y agoThe Goal was actually the primary inspiration for The Phoenix Project, iirc. I think it was mentioned at the end of the book.
- truemped 6y agoIndeed. Both, The Phoenix Project and The Unicorn Project are heavily inspired by The Goal.
- planet-and-halo 6y agoLess known but even more applicable to software is "Principles of Product Development Flow." I learned about that book from the talk "Architecture Without an End State" and it's one of the most thoughtful things I've read on the topic. It references "The Goal" but builds out its ideas even more, mixing in a bunch of queue theory and taking lessons from many other areas such as statistical economics.