Release Risk

Risk compounds with every hour of unreleased work. Release small, release often.

Bottlenecks

Throughput equals the slowest stage. Unbalanced pipelines create invisible queues.

Team Scaling

Adding people has diminishing returns. The serial portion of work limits speedup.

Bug Triage

Expected value guides rational prioritization. Not all bugs deserve the same effort.

Alert Fatigue

More alerts ≠ more safety. Signal-to-noise ratio collapses as alert count grows.

Deadlines

Task size variance blows up queue delay. Make work uniform to hit deadlines.

Tech Debt

Every shortcut has a rent. Debt compounds like interest, crushing velocity over time.

Backlog Strategy

Assigning tickets to people creates invisible queues. A shared team backlog eliminates wasted capacity.

Coordination Costs

Coordinating multiple teams has a hidden N² cost. The USL models why more teams can mean less output.