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.
Tag: kanban
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How to limit WIP when you cannot block arriving work requests?
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.
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Pull-Based Change Management: Invitation, Product Thinking, and Real Enterprise Change
Yuval Yeret's perspective on pull-based change management: treat change as a product, invite over mandate, use minimum viable change, and scale through evidence rather than rollout theater.
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· KanbanKanban FAQ: Should I FINISH what I'm working on or help the team READY new work items?
A common Kanban and Scrum dilemma — should you finish what you're working on or help ready new work items? The Lean Decision Filter resolves this tension between Stop Starting Start Finishing and maintaining healthy flow.
- · Agile
Sensing and increasing manager engagement during an agile change initiative - guest post by Yaki Koren
How to sense and increase manager engagement during an agile change initiative — keeping managers in the lead using pull-based techniques so they captain the ship rather than just approve it.
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· BlogBootstrapping Agile (by yourself) using Kanban - My Agile Israel 2013 talk
Starting agile without organizational buy-in: how Kanban non-prescriptive, start-where-you-are approach lets individuals and small teams introduce agility without permission.