Definitely, Maybe Agile
Definitely, Maybe Agile
Peter Maddison and Dave Sharrock
Do You Actually Have a Capacity Problem?
19 minutes Posted Apr 23, 2026 at 4:00 pm.
Welcome And The Capacity Question\n
Why Capacity Tracking Misleads\n
Overload Raises WIP And Slows Delivery\n
Taylorism Breaks Down In Knowledge Work\n
Predictability Through Historical Throughput\n
Context Switching And The 90% Trap\n
MVP Thinking And Saying No\n
Delivery System Design And Feedback Loops\n
Start Small With Pressure Points\n
AI Accelerates Bottlenecks And Failure\n
Reporting Reality While Transitioning Metrics\n
Three Takeaways And Closing CTA\n
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Most organizations think they have a capacity problem. They usually don't. What they have is a work-in-progress problem. And those two things call for very different solutions. In this episode, Peter Maddison and Dave Sharrock dig into one of the most persistent headaches in organizational management: capacity tracking. Why does the instinct to measure utilization backfire? Why does loading people up to 100% actually slow things down? And what should leaders be asking instead? The conversatio...