Many organisations are eager to reduce lead times to get into productive flow faster, get valuable feedback earlier, and shorten time to market. After running several such projects with clients, I’ve found a few common low hanging fruits to look for. I’ve also come to the somewhat surprising conclusion that many delays are caused by invented actions we impose on ourselves!

This session goes beyond the usual agile, lean, or theory-of-constraints tips of reducing work-in-progress and batch-size. Those two aspects are important, but there are also development-specific practices that are highly effective to investigate and adjust. A positive side effect is that these adjustments improve not only speed, but quality as well!

You’ll leave with a list of common places to start looking, along with practical tools in your toolbox for identifying the invented actions causing delays for your team and how to solve them.