Prematurely Optimizing Development Teams
Paul has a really great post about how agile development moved the bottle neck from development to IT operations. In chapter three of Paul’s “Agile Blind Spot” series, he shares his personal view on the disconnect between dev and ops, providing an example of a six month backlog of production deployment. Premature Optimization is about optimizing before we know that we need to do it, and although often applied to coding level, Paul feels that working on yesteryears bottle neck is just plain muda.
“So your organization has turned your rag-tag group of software developers into well-oiled Agile teams. Congratulations! You’ve removed a bottleneck. Now where is your organization’s biggest bottleneck? I’m guessing it’s not the development team anymore. One of the prime candidates is Operations, but it could by anything. If you’re still focused on improving yesterday’s bottleneck, it’s Premature Optimization and it’s waste.”
The full blog post with links to the previous articles is available here: http://www.salientblue.com/blog/?p=253
