limit your wip! why and how?

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This is the story about Justin and how WIP limitation helped him save a project and improve his company.

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Justin the hero ‒ he saved a project!

Late project ‒ overtime and bonuses had no effect

Watching the printer ‒ Justin finds enlightment

Systems for knowledge work have limited capacity!

Vsualising the workflow and the state of the work

The board is completely overloaded!

Defining WIP limits

Too much WIP in the System ‒ what to do?

A new way of working

The boards gets emptier ‒ tasks‘re finished faster

Increasing throughput is hard ‒ reducing WIP is easy

Multitasking leads to poor quality

Justin has to hold back and trust the team

Better predictability

Faster feedback, more learnings

Utilisation goes down ‒ a desaster?

„Slack is the ultimate weapon“ ‒ D. Anderson

„Veterans“ are still overloaded

The board has the measles!

Sprints as another kind of limitation

Applying WIP limitation to portfolio mngt.

Limitation by discussion

Wrap up

Wrap up

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