How to Calculate Kanban WIP Limits in the AI Age
Actual starting numbers for active work and queues, including solo and multiplayer spec-driven development, collaboration-pod topology, flow buffers, replenishment cadence, and historical WIP.
Actual starting numbers for active work and queues, including solo and multiplayer spec-driven development, collaboration-pod topology, flow buffers, replenishment cadence, and historical WIP.
A new open-source AI agent skill to help teams rewrite their work items from output/activity language to outcome-oriented language using a simple taxonomy.
A follow-up AI coaching prompt for anyone who sat through my "Product Orientation Through LPM" talk — pressure-test one real initiative, find the real gap, and get one experiment to run in the next few weeks.
Flow metrics are not useful because metrics are good. They are useful when important work is slow, blockers show up late, forecasts are fragile, and leaders need a better way to decide what to start, stop, finish, or fix.
Season 1 of Breaking the SAFe: where SAFe helps, where it goes sideways, and how practitioners can use Scrum first principles to course-correct before the framework becomes theater.