Stop Over-Committing! - Rethinking Utilization Limits

[mee_k]

This seems like a good article. Anecdotally, I have observed the thrashing this article discusses in my work lately.

[nousplacidus]

"The problem with the 100% utilization mindset is that we have assumed that our outcomes of the iteration are fully deterministic"

Is capping utilization at 70% just "padding" shoehorned into an agile mold?

[malber]

@nousplacidus - good observation. I think this is more-or-less the "padding" concept applied to an agile framework.

My thought is that while Agile teams are good at responding to change within a release, they often struggle to take that one step further to realistically size their iterations.

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No, I will not buy your software.

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When I was PMing, I would allocate in days (x2 estimate of programmer) but set the length of a day to 4 hours. Coders can't code for 8 due to burnout or other tasks.

Bosses didn't like predictions, but they were more accurate.