Top benefits of small batch sizes

Let us have another look at the benefits of this phenomenon “small batches”. Numerous articles that explain the benefits

Everyone wants to feel secure when preparing larger investments. The prevailing and intuitive path is to have experts analyze and estimate the efforts. Most experts put their time in understanding the solution: what risks are there, what are the gaps to the current solution, what technical alternatives should we select, and who have the necessary skills.

Instead of spending time analyzing

Instead of analyzing, both business and solution, the effort can be put into evaluating real results.

Never forget that capability to deliver fast is not only cost-effective it also a security/quality enhancer because correcting errors is possible without pain.

Working with large backlog items means more hand-overs, higher complexity, scattered delays, and long queues.

More data that is more accurate allows putting more time on the evaluation. I have emphasized the part for evaluation as an increasing opportunity for more data more accurate than initial with fewer data coming from real deliveries you will be able to do with smaller batches. Fewer parameters make evaluation much more specific compared with large initiatives with many parameters working in combination.

The principles of Product Development Flow by Donald Reinertsen