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This episode looks at the preprint, No Silver Bullets: Why Understanding Software Cycle Time is Messy, Not Magic, from John Flournoy, Carol Lee, Maggie Wu, and Catherine Hicks from Pluralsight.
The paper looks at how cycle time is influenced by a large number of factors, with none being a silver bullet. The compound affect of many small improvements is the way to improve cycle times. There’s also a deep look at unexplained variation and noise that makes this a hard area to study.
There are countless tiny factors that can influence how long a single task takes… and what’s particularly striking, or maybe a bit humbling, is that this variability across individuals is even greater than the variability across organizations.
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