This short presentation was given on 12 Dec 2023 at the Doctoral College Sustainability Lunch un University of Limerick. In it we present our work in researching Agile queueing systems and present it from the perspective of the UN Sustainability Goal of "Decent work and Economic Growth". We made the case that "Decent Work" means not excessive work which can lead to anxiety, depression and burnout. We showed the prevalence of excessive work in Agile software development systems where 79% of projects reviewed in 13 organisations over a 20 year period had more work arrive per unit time than the people doing the work were able to deliver. We make the case for better measuring and improvement of systems for the people doing the work and with improved results for the companies and customers waiting on the work to be completed.

1. Presenter: Rob Healy, PDEng,
4th Year, Faculty of Science and Engineering
Supervisors:
Brian Fitzgerald, University of Limerick
Kieran Conboy, University of Galway
Tapajit Dey, Carnegie Mellon
with Edwin Lewzey, intive
Dec 2023
Scaling Agile with stable
queuing systems

2. Scaling Agile with Stable Queueing Systems
Decent Work, Economic Growth, and Agile
Healy, Fitzgerald, Conboy, Dey and Lewzey 2 of 3
The importance of flow and queues

3. Scaling Agile with Stable Queueing Systems
Stability leading to Sustainability, Predictability and Growth
Healy, Dey, Conboy and Fitzgerald 3 of 3
Stability Metric, Benchmark and Reports