From the course: Advanced Agile: The Team's Mindset
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Line up batches into short work queues
From the course: Advanced Agile: The Team's Mindset
Line up batches into short work queues
- If you're working with Kanban, Lean, or any of the top agile frameworks, you're going to want to keep an eye on your work queues. Batches and queues work together to ensure that your team delivers at a predictable pace without getting overloaded. You've already seen that agile teams work with smaller work batches. Many of the agile frameworks have something in place to limit batch sizes. Scrum has product backlog items to make sure that the team isn't working on too much at any one time. Extreme Programming teams work off of user stories. Kanban has cards to limit the work in the system. All of these frameworks force the team to break down the work into the smallest possible batches. But once you have these batches, you still have to organize and prioritize the work that goes through the system. That's where work queues come in. In fact, agile teams rely on queue theory. Queue theory is about quickly moving small…
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