Factories Without Belts

It's Like Mario Up in Here I met my first pipeline about 25 years ago. It was shaped like a conveyor belt and it was responsible for sorting all of the Norah Jones and Kidz Bop CDs that didn't sell at Wal-Mart that month back into boxes so we could get a refund. At the time, I was working for a category manager and supplier of music entertainment products as a lead in their returns centre, responsible for maintaining that conveyor belt of a pipeline and the people and systems that fed it. Not much has changed in the last 25 years, I'm still building systems to manage pipelines though now they're more apt to deliver digital products and infrastructure than the physical kind. I'm still supporting people too, as best I can. Experience gained is wasted, if not shared. Through this series of posts I'm hoping to share with you, the reader and assumed enjoyer of pipelines and flow, how I go about things. Belts and Suspenders By now, everyone that has worked in the software is familiar with th