WIP drops as a side effect of focusing on minimizing the length of feedback loops
Instant feedback loop guarantees that participating actors won’t have time to start anything else while waiting for response/feedback.
»You most probably don't have a problem with mocks
but a feature envied, tightly coupled, Asking instead of Telling production code.
»Maybe the reason you have a too big team
is that you have too many specializations.
»Just-in-time moment for exponential scenarios
is when it looks like it’s too soon.
»The cost of delayed feedback
(via associated rework) on two things running in parallel is more expensive than the questionable progress being made on those two.
»Async way of working
reduces the cost of starting something new (the other side doesn’t have to be available) which eventually kills the ability to finish anything.
»The key to building the quality in is to make making changes very cheap
If you deploy often and break things too often
the countermeasure is not to deploy less often in order to not break things too often (spoiler: makes things even worse) but to build in mechanisms/practices that enable you to keep deploying often while breaking things way less often.
»Async work is killing your company's throughput
The problem with any async system and way of working is that it makes it very cheap to start the work (pull it in the system).
»Big Batches™ are a soap opera and a drama
They are a big bet and high risk.
You can feel ecstatic, or you can feel a huge disappointment.