Understanding Queues: The Invisible Bottleneck in Product Development
In product development, queues are one of the most critical yet invisible factors affecting your team's performance and economic outcomes. Unlike physical queues you can see, product development queues consist of information and work items waiting to be processed—making them financially and physically invisible.
Understanding queues is essential because they represent the root cause of most economic waste in product development, following Q2: The Principle of Queueing Waste.