Your Team Is Stuck in Traffic (And You Don’t Even Know It)

Most teams don’t fail because of bad intentions, low skills, or lack of motivation.
They fail because they unknowingly overload a system that has physical limits.

In this talk, I use a live traffic simulator to demonstrate core principles from Agile, Extreme Programming, Lean and DevOps — not with slides or frameworks, but by watching a system behave.

Through a series of live simulations, we’ll explore:
• Why Sustainable Pace is not a cultural preference, but a hard system constraint
• How even short traffic spikes can permanently break flow
• Why batching and large features behave like trucks blocking the road
• How collective ownership and technical excellence prevent chaos even at high load
• Why async code reviews create bottlenecks, and how pairing changes the system dynamics
• How defects and technical debt slow everyone down, not just one team
• Why fast recovery (low MTTR) matters more than preventing incidents
• How AI can support the system by improving visibility and recovery — without replacing human responsibility

This is not a metaphor-heavy talk.
It’s a systemic, visual and interactive exploration of how work actually flows — and why pushing teams harder almost always makes things worse.

Attendees will leave with:
• A deeper intuition for flow, WIP and batch size
• A clearer understanding of why XP and DevOps practices work together
• Practical insights they can apply immediately to their own teams and systems

No agile theatre.
No magic frameworks.
Just systems, constraints, and flow.