Limit Work-in-Progress
Understand the importance of limiting work-in-progress in software development. Explore how focusing on fewer tasks improves delivery speed, reveals process bottlenecks, and reduces context switching for better productivity. This lesson helps you apply WIP limits to enhance team efficiency and quality results.
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I think you have heard the advice to limit your work in progress. People tend to either mechanically follow or dismiss this direction due to unclear motivations behind it. In this section, I want to explain the underlying reason for this recommendation so that you are productive when implementing such measures.
Firstly, more work in progress means fewer things done and a longer feedback loop. As you can imagine, these consequences are not attractive from both the quantity and quality standpoint of deliverables.
For example, let us look at a typical situation in a development team that works in ...