Vikram Mandyam

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Learning is the constraint

[Vikram Mandyam] / 2021-04-05


TIL about “Learning is the constraint”…

In software teams, that need to deliver good results fast, every person in the team needs to learn fast and invest in learning to be a fast learner!

Quoting from the really insightful article :

“Think of a recent significant project or piece of work your team completed How long did it take, end to end, inception to delivery? Now imagine you were to do the same project over again, with the same team, the same organizational constraints, the same everything, except your team would already know everything they learned during the project.

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It turned out answers in the order of 1/2 to 1/4 the time to repeat the project were not uncommon. This led to the conclusion that ‘Learning is the constraint’. The biggest impediment to your throughput was what you didn’t know.”