Exercise 2: Matched Capacities — Possible Solution ==================================================================== SETUP ------------------------------ REVIEW_RATE raised from 2 to 4, matching BUILD_RATE RESULT ------------------------------ Day 1: built=4, reviewed=4, waiting=0 Day 2: built=8, reviewed=8, waiting=0 Day 3: built=12, reviewed=12, waiting=0 ... Day 10: built=40, reviewed=40, waiting=0 "Waiting for review" stays at exactly 0 every single day - no backlog ever forms. WHAT THIS REVEALS ABOUT THE CFD SIGNAL ------------------------------ A cumulative flow diagram's own bottleneck signal is entirely relative - it's not about any single stage's absolute speed, it's about whether one stage's rate exceeds its neighbor's. The chapter's own mismatched rates (4 vs. 2) produced a visibly widening gap; identical rates (4 vs. 4) produce a perfectly flat gap, regardless of whether that shared rate is fast or slow in absolute terms. A team watching only Build's own output number (still climbing at 4/day, same as before) would see no difference between the two scenarios - the CFD's own "waiting" band is what actually distinguishes a healthy flow from a growing bottleneck, which is exactly why it's tracked as its own metric rather than inferred from either stage's throughput alone.