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The Traffic FallacyUMD PM SymposiumMay 11, 2018
Sean [email protected]
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Sean EddingsSenior Producer & Agile Coach
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Last Call Media enjoys work with purpose — building engaging solutions that assistand support organizations working to improve their communities.
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Google MapsAverage of 41 min to go 28 miles from downtown Houston to Katyland
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https://www.highways.org
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https://www.highways.org
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Direct economic loss: $503,620,000/yr* ++
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“Bottlenecks caused by too many cars on too little road are to blame for about half of all traffic jams. Traffic accidents, work zones, bad weather and poor signal timing account for the rest.”
- Highways.orghttps://imgur.com/YN6EfV5
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“Bottlenecks caused by too many cars on too little road are to blame for about half of all traffic jams. Traffic accidents, work zones, bad weather and poor signal timing account for the rest.”
- Highways.orghttps://imgur.com/YN6EfV5
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Raycom Media
Conclusion: Too many cars, not enough freeway.
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TribTalk
“Extra capacity would surely solve this problem.”
- said a reasonable person, probably
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Therefore, build more freeway.
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So the state of Texas spent more than $2.8 billion to widen the Katy Freeway to 26 lanes.
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Average travel time increased 55%, from 41 to 64 minutes.
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As the amount of freeway increased, the number of cars gradually increased too. Ratio of car to freeway remained the same.
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Balanced Transportation Analyzer
Peak time
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Balanced Transportation Analyzer
Peak time
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50 lane Hong Kong-Macau Expressway https://www.usatoday.com
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Freeway engineers have the best intentions.
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The real challenge for city streets is to move people, not cars, efficiently.
NY Times
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Despite capacity increases, too many VIP (vehicles in progress) means continued high road utilization, high throughput times, and idling vehicles.
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There’s no freeway-slack to handle vehicle variations.
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Congested freeways need a VIP limit.
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Flickr - onesevenone
New York, NY
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NY Times
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Stockholm, Sweden
Wikipedia
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Average travel time decreased 50%.
Emissions droppedby 14-18% in the inner city.
IBM
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What about our “freeways”
How many of us have looked at their backlog and thought, “things are taking forever and nothing is getting done!”?
Then who thought, well maybe we need more people!
Who also had team members with >1 thing assigned to them marked as “in progress”?
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Everyone was incredibly busy and working hard, yet value was taking too long to get to the customer.
NY Times
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Differences in task variation makes it difficult to provide scheduling predictions, so to maintain a positive customer experience costly, secondary needs were created as tasks waited.
This is superfluous work.
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Traditional management literature says people need to be 100% utilized in order to get more things done.
Assign work to people! Then manage it!
Here are just a few more tasks...
So the goal of project management was to make sure everyone always had a full plate of work assigned to them.
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Is being busy and delivering value with predictability mutually exclusive?
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What would it look like if instead of focusing on keeping people busy, we focused on delivering work to the customer as quickly as possible?
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Goal: Put our good ideas into action quickly.
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Why?
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1. Visualize our process2. Limit our work in progress3. Improve as a team
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- Helped us see the system as a whole.- Physical board with columns representing work states - High level visibility for team - Bottlenecks become easier to see, for us to either respect or
change them as a team- Makes hidden work apparent
1. Visualized our process
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We started having conversations.
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- How many things can you really work on at one time?
2. Limit Work in Progress (WIP)
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- How many things can you really work on at one time? - Excessive WIP heightens distraction, decreases
concentration, increases task abandonment.- Bottlenecks, again, become clear fast. - Marked WIP Limits on board.
2. Limit Work in Progress (WIP)
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- There’s no one right WIP limit for a team, however: - A lower WIP is generally better. - Too-high WIP leaves work idle. - Too-low WIP leaves people idle.
- WIP limits are not rules
2. Limit Work in Progress (WIP)
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Balanced Transportation Analyzer
Peak time
WIP Limit
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Throughput = # of Flow Units x Cycle Time
Little’s Law
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Common attributes are:
- Description of the work item- ID in electronic systems (JIRA, etc)- Deadlines- Who’s working on the item- Type of work (bug or normal, for example)- Color
Card as a flow unit
Card acts as a signal. Signals are in different states.
DUE: July 31, 2017JIRA #: JRA-134TITLE: Expiring tokensDESCRIPTION:
As a VIP user, when I have not logged in for 120-days, my tokens expire, so that I can’t be inactive and carry a token balance indefinitely.
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- Take a list of work - Prioritize it based on business value (1, 2, 3,...)- That’s a backlog - Teams work from top to bottom- Team self organizes to figure out how to pull the work
through the queue
Getting started
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To Do Doing (1) Done
JRA-134
JRA-152
JRA-122
JRA-107
A simple board
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To Do Doing (1) Done
JRA-152
JRA-122
JRA-134
JRA-107
A simple board
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To Do Doing (1) Done
JRA-122 JRA-152
JRA-107
A simple board
JRA-134
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To Do Doing (1) Done
JRA-152
JRA-122
JRA-134
JRA-107
What happened?
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To Do Analyze (4) Selected for Dev (4)
In Progress (4) UAT (5) Ready for
Deploy (4) Done
CUP-134
CUP-152
CUP-122
CUP-132
CUP-107
CUP-147 CUP-142 CUP-174
CUP-52
CUP-74
CUP-97
CUP-158
CUP-139
CUP-109
CUP-201
CUP-203
CUP-152
CUP-122
CUP-18
CUP-9
CUP-98
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Attach people to work
Team Member
Flow Unit Flow Unit Flow Unit
(Resource efficiency)
Flow Unit
Team Member
Team Member
Team Member
(Flow efficiency)
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“Flow efficiency is the sum of value adding activities in relation to throughput time.”
- This is Lean
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Flow efficiency = Value-adding activitiesThroughput time
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Flow efficiency is about reducing non-value adding activities, like flow units waiting.
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100% resource efficiency
Need: As an admin, I want to be able to enable site-wide notifications, so visitors can see important alerts like changes to the schedule.
Value-adding time: Time spent with creative and development (8 hours)
Time period: From request submitted to being live on production (120 hours)
Flow efficiency: 6.6% = 100*(8/120)
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Shift to flow efficiency
Need: As an admin, I want to be able to enable site-wide notifications, so visitors can see important alerts like changes to the schedule.
Value-adding time: Time spent with creative and development (8 hours)
Time period: From request submitted to being live on production (24 hours)
Flow efficiency: 33.3% = 100*(8/24)
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To Do Analyze (4) Selected for Dev (4)
In Progress (4) UAT (5) Ready for
Deploy (4) Done
CUP-134
CUP-152
CUP-122
CUP-132
CUP-107
CUP-147 CUP-142 CUP-174
CUP-52
CUP-74
CUP-97
CUP-158
CUP-139
CUP-109
CUP-201
CUP-203
CUP-152
CUP-122
CUP-18
CUP-9
CUP-98
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National Geographic
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- Multifunctional team- Dedicated team (not on project
work)- Queue hygiene - Daily stand ups- Retrospectives
What stayed the same What changed
- Optimizing for getting a single work unit through the process as quickly as possible.
- Team member attached to work- Team members pull work
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Good to great
What about how we work should change and what should stay the same?
1. Set the stage2. Gather data3. Generate insights4. Decide what to do5. Close the retrospective
Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great by Esther Derby
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What we learned
- Start with what we have (People, tools, space)- Prioritize our work- Visual our process - Limit our WIP- Retrospectives are how we improve as a team- To deliver value to customers faster
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Agile and Lean, after all, are all about experimentation and learning. Enjoy the trip.
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The Traffic FallacyUMD PM SymposiumMay 11, 2018
Sean [email protected]
lcm.io/feedback
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When variation in flow units is low, adding more resources may improve throughput.
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BEFORECars per hour = Amount of road / Cars on the road at any given time.
AFTERCars per hour = Amount of road / Cars on the road at any given time.
300,000Throughput time