Thirteen backlogs in a trenchcoat: Analysing Renovate's many requests

🤖 This post includes some LLM-derived content 🤖 In 2019, I saw a talk called Building and Growing an Agile Team by Tom Hoyland, which has probably been one of the most impactful talks I've attended in my career. In the talk, Tom talks about how he worked with a team to build them into a high-performing team, which, among other things, involved measuring things like "cycle time", improving the way the team's deployment process worked by doing it for every story, and by discovering the sources of work coming into the team. In the latter case, by understanding the sources of work the team was being given, the team could then have full visibility into their different backlogs, which had always been present, but maybe not clearly thought of as a backlog, and make better choices going forwards. This is something that I've internalised quite deeply over the years, and have used to build teams that enjoyed working together across several companies. Most recently, this talk has come up as I've…