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The #1 way to improve productivity is to work in smaller tasks. Virtually every productivity metric (cycle time, dora, WIP, etc.) is a function of task size. “But the overhead of each [ticket/pull request/deployment/approval process] is so high, I’d never get anything done with small tasks!” That’s a feature, not a bug. Small tasks expose other stuff that sucks so that you have to fix it. “But some important things just take a long time!” Really? Are you absolutely sure? The human genome evolved one mutation at a time, and is way more complicated and important than anything anyone has ever built.