@adrianh Great minds, Adrian. Great minds.
I plan to do another value stream map series this week, showing how adding "AI" to any one person does not change a darn thing to the overall effectiveness.
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@adrianh Yes! I see this everywhere. What can we do to support more collaborative work? (I've been using value stream maps to show people "individual productivity" is a meaningless idea.)
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@nobsagile That means we *might* find productivity gains when a collaborative team mobs/pairs with an LLM to increase the speed to understanding and learning.
I am not discussing insights an LLM might make on any org's data. That's a different problem.
But productivity? Not if you focus on the individual. Always misguided.
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@nobsagile Individual-focused "productivity" is never productive. That's because the only "test" for productivity is the time and cost to release a running, tested feature. That's it.
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