Limit WIP doesn't mean doing less
March 26, 2013
I’m having the opportunity to coach in an organization that isn’t used to agile practices. This is very refreshing and they are constantly challenging me and the ways that I think for granted. Quite often I find myself stumbling to explain practices that I for so long just have assumed that everyone was doing.
A couple of days ago I stumbled upon one of those. Here’s the dialogue that played out (as I remember it at least): Me: You are doing a lot of things at once here… Appointed Product Owner: Yes. But there’s a lot of things that we have promised them to finish by [date] Me: But why don’t you limit your work in process then? That will get stuff done faster and .. PO: Whatever do you mean? We cannot just limit the work. This [pointing to board] is what we are supposed to have done. We better do it now. As...