[manvillej]

this isn't even a software things. Its any production process. The greater amount of work in progress items, the longer the work in progress items, the greater risk, the greater amount of work. Shrink the batch, shorten the release window window.

It infuriates me that software engineering has had to rediscover these facts when the Toyota production system was developed between 1948-1975 and knew all these things 50 years ago.