This is why I always get suspicious whenever a vendor shows up with a slide deck boasting massive productivity spikes. The tech usually *is* faster at the micro-task... it's just that the chaos always seems to relocate somewhere else downstream.
Indeed! The chaos relocates, and the team that absorbs it almost never gets counted
against the team that saved the time.
The version I keep running into is that both numbers are accurate. The first team really did get faster. The second team really did get slower. Nothing in the measurement connects them.
Tuesday's piece goes further into this, so do have a look.
Reminds me of every software migration I've ever lived through! The metrics look great on day one, and everything falls away before the week is over...
This is why I always get suspicious whenever a vendor shows up with a slide deck boasting massive productivity spikes. The tech usually *is* faster at the micro-task... it's just that the chaos always seems to relocate somewhere else downstream.
Indeed! The chaos relocates, and the team that absorbs it almost never gets counted
against the team that saved the time.
The version I keep running into is that both numbers are accurate. The first team really did get faster. The second team really did get slower. Nothing in the measurement connects them.
Tuesday's piece goes further into this, so do have a look.
Reminds me of every software migration I've ever lived through! The metrics look great on day one, and everything falls away before the week is over...