Category: Technical debt

Want to do more. Consider doing less. Limit your work in progress (WIP). Value completeness over an abundance of work in progress. Let's examine how this strategy can actually make your teams more productive. "Do a few things insanely great" reflects a quote from an executive at a previous company where I worked.  What is interesting, the company developed software using traditional project management with long development cycles and large number of features planned upfront.  Schedules were commonly delayed in order to ensure quality levels and handle complex code integrations from the large number of changes.  The executive was suggesting a different approach for working. I use the quote in my Scrum and Kanban training to emphasize the importance of limiting WIP.   In Kanban, the WIP constraints are part of…