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The bottleneck moves

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Four-panel comic strip: the board overflows at TO VALIDATE while the team celebrates output; Vera compares asking for faster generation to adding more cars to the jam.
The concept

In all knowledge work two different things coexist: deciding what to do and executing what was decided. For the whole history of agile management the bottleneck was almost always in execution: writing the code, drafting the document or producing the piece took human time and effort, and work was organized, estimated and measured around that effort. By making execution cheap, intelligent assistance moves the narrow point of work from producing to deciding and validating: generating faster does not clear the jam, it feeds it. What is scarce is no longer writing, but deciding well and validating what is produced — and everything devoted to those two things gains weight in the team, while the machinery that existed to coordinate execution loses it.

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