SHOWBOAT
Ship even, even faster!
So you've gone all-in on coding agents.

Your engineers got 10× faster. Everything around them didn't.

Showboat gives everyone around them the tools to keep up.

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Work pours in at the top and falls through five stations, from shaping it to telling customers. Each neck is as wide as that station's weekly capacity, so the pile-up always lands on the narrowest one. Pick a moment and watch the jam move.

Slow down, or ship blind. Showboat is the third option.

The value stream · work items per week

Suggested next moment
1↓ ideas & requests pour in
3full? it spills down the chute ↘
Shapeproduct & UX prepare the work12 / wkspecs ready before Build is
Buildengineering6 / wkJAMMED — the backlog piles up here
Reviewdesign review + QA14 / wkhas slack
The orgeveryone inside the company10 / wka weekly demo covers it
Customersthe people the product is for8 / wkhear about the odd release
Slowed down
“not sure it's safe”
↓ Shipped blind
↓ Shipped and told
  • Shape12 / wk product & UX prepare the workspecs ready before Build is
  • Build6 / wk engineeringJAMMED — the backlog piles up here
  • Review14 / wk design review + QAhas slack
  • The org10 / wk everyone inside the companya weekly demo covers it
  • Customers8 / wk the people the product is forhear about the odd release
  1. 1ideas & requests pour in at the top
  2. 3when Review is full, work spills down the chute: slowed down in the tray (“not sure it's safe”), or shipped blind down the side
6
shipped / week×1.0 vs. before agents
0
of those, shipped blind
0
slowed down in the tray

Illustrative: counted live off the drawing

1 · Before agents

Engineering is the bottleneck.

Specs are ready faster than anyone can hand-build them, so work piles up in front of engineering. Everything downstream waits calmly: review has slack, a weekly demo tells the org, and customers hear about the odd release.

How to read it
  • a specced piece of work
  • the agents' own fix, tidy-up or copy tweak
  • old news: told too late, then forgotten
  • a station's gate: it clears one item at a time, at its weekly capacity. The wider the neck, the more it clears.

Numbers are illustrative, except the 30–50 “new version” prompts a day: a real team's count · capacity = work items a station clears per week · nobody here is the villain — the engineers just got there first

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