Throughput over backlog

Last week I wanted to share the cool photo form the banana peel technique. When I was writing the blog post, I created the following sentence (following the Agile manifesto style):

 

Lead time and throughput over estimation and velocity

 

Paul Hammant suggested a better sentence:

 

Throughput over backlog

 

I totally agree with him. There is a subtle, but important difference. In his own words: Throughput (as a higher number) is better than backlog (as a high number). In other words you want throughput to be high and backlog to be low.

 

 

 

Paulo Caroli

Paulo Caroli is an author, speaker, and consultant specializing in agile transformations, Lean Inception, and OKRs. With over 30 years of experience—including nearly a decade in Silicon Valley and 18 years at ThoughtWorks—he has helped organizations transition from project to product and from strategy to execution. Creator of the Lean Inception methodology and author of bestselling books like Lean Inception and Team OKR, Paulo is dedicated to empowering teams to align, validate, and deliver real business value.
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