How to avoid gridlock by using contingency at Sprint Planning
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How to avoid gridlock by using contingency at Sprint Planning
A quote you might have heard before is “Operating a product development process near full utilization is an economic disaster.” Don Reinertsen isn’t mincing his words here : ) This video is a short guide to why you should use contingency when Sprint Planning, and I am borrowing Troy Magennis’s metaphor of a motorway to explain why 100% utilisation is bad.
Here are the links I mentioned in the video:
https://observablehq.com/@troymagennis/how-does-utilization-impact-lead-time-of-work