Cultivating Agile: WIP As A Mindset
Limiting work in progress (WIP) is a mindset shift! Limiting WIP has many benefits. What is your WIP mindset? The blog Do A Few Things Insanely Great emphasizes that we can actually "do more with less". The idea is that we can increase our flow rates, decrease wait times, and eliminate bottlenecks when we limit WIP. This leads to increased productivity, improved team morale, more visibility into ongoing work, and better metrics on velocity and project progress. There is more personal satisfaction in seeing things actually completed rather than having a full plate of ongoing work. Limiting WIP also makes us identify and focus on those tasks which have the highest value since we can only work on a few things at a time. If we can only do a few things,…
