Portfolio WIP — It's Not About Limits
Every time I introduce a portfolio Kanban, somebody asks about WIP limits. My recommendation at the portfolio level is often: don't limit WIP. At least not the way you're thinking about it.
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I'm Yuval Yeret — a SAFe Fellow, Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer, and Principal Consultant with 17+ years helping organizations from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 companies fix their delivery systems. I write from the consulting floor: what I'm seeing, what I'm trying, and what the evidence says actually works.
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Every time I introduce a portfolio Kanban, somebody asks about WIP limits. My recommendation at the portfolio level is often: don't limit WIP. At least not the way you're thinking about it.
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