DevOpsDays Austin 2015

When workers ask about priorities, a “do all the things” answer can do more harm than good.
Attempting to increase the workload through a pipeline that can only handle so much is a futile exercise—it only increases interruptions that cause further delays.

Clear priorities are vital for reducing expensive context switching. But they are tough to get when competing requests from many customers arrive simultaneously.
This talk addresses what clear priorities can do for teams and how a sensible prioritization method helps teams increase throughput through a pipeline.