Limiting WIP When You Cannot Block Incoming Work
The most common WIP limit objection: 'we can't block incoming work.' How to apply WIP constraints even in environments where new requests cannot be refused.
The most common WIP limit objection: 'we can't block incoming work.' How to apply WIP constraints even in environments where new requests cannot be refused.
Sprint deadlines create natural urgency, so what motivates flow-based Kanban teams? Alternatives to timebox-driven momentum: WIP limits, SLEs, and cadences.
Conferences Yuval is speaking at in Fall 2014: Lean Kanban and agile events focused on flow, scaling, and practical transformation stories.
The quest for stable cross-functional feature teams in real organizations: skill variability, management resistance, and the trade-offs against dynamic teams.
A 2014 reader survey after 9 years of blogging: asking what resonates, what can improve, and what topics matter most to the agile/Kanban community.
A facilitation guide for restarting a stalled improvement journey: getting teams off the plateau and back into real improvement, starting with why.