# Deliver software faster by managing work in progress, not by adding overtime

DevFeed: [Deliver software faster by managing work in progress, not by adding overtime](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/deliver-software-faster-by-managing-work-in-progress-not-by-adding-overtime-2023.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//deliver-software-faster-by-managing-work-in-progress-not-by-adding-overtime>)

Published: 2017-09-27T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [SoundCloud Backstage Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/soundcloud-backstage-blog.md>)

Topics: [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>)

Tags: [bugs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bugs.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [engineering-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering-management.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [monitor](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitor.md>), [product-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product-development.md>), [project-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/project-management.md>), [reduce](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reduce.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [strategy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/strategy.md>), [workflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflow.md>)

## AI overview

This article describes SoundCloud's efforts to improve product development flow by measuring lead time and cycle time and reducing work in progress. Its proposed strategy includes committing to fewer products, features, and tasks at once, reducing code inventory, and monitoring and reducing bugs instead of relying on overtime.

## Source excerpt

Product development flow (flow) is the rate at which our products are developed, from idea to deployment. Good flow means that products should pass through the development cycle quickly and continuously.