Daniel Vacanti
Little's Law - Why You Should Care
Without an understanding of what makes Little's Law work, teams are making decisions every day that are in direct contravention of facts.
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May 22-23
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Daniel Vacanti
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Other Myths About Little's Law
Prateek Singh and I recorded an episode of our Drunk Agile podcast to go over some Little's Law myths in more detail
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Daniel Vacanti
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How NOT to use Little's Law
Despite what you've heard, Little's Law is not about - and was never designed for - making deterministic forecasts about the future.
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Daniel Vacanti
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The Most Important Metric of Little's Law Isn't In The Equation
Allowing items to age arbitrarily is the single greatest factor as to why you are not efficient, effective, or predictable at delivering...
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Daniel Vacanti
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It's Always The Assumptions
The Throughput form of Little's Law is based on five basic assumptions. Break any of those, and the equation doesn't work. Simple as that.
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Daniel Vacanti
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What's the Tallest Mountain On Earth?
Geologists fall prey to the same syndrome that afflicts most Agile methodologies. A bias toward finish while ignoring the start.
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Daniel Vacanti
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The Deviance of Standard Deviation
Why is the standard deviation so popular? Not because it is correct. Because that's what students are taught. It's that simple.
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Daniel Vacanti
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One Law. Two Equations.
Little's Law's two forms can lead to two very different answers even when using the same dataset. How can one law lead to two answers?
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Julia Wester
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Is your workflow hiding key signals?
A card's position in a true workflow reflects how close or far away it is from realizing its potential value. Does yours?
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Julia Wester
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Probabilistic vs. deterministic forecasting
Do you hear people throwing around words like probabilistic and deterministic forecasting, and you aren't sure exactly what they mean?
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