· Flow
Lowering Work in Process (WIP) in the Real-world
How to reduce WIP in brownfield/legacy systems that already have high in-flight work — practical patterns including the freeze, no-new-work, and limit-later approaches.
Tag: limitedwip
- · Agile
The Agile Lowest Common Denominator - Avoiding a slowdown due to the weakest link
Why Kanban surfaces the bottleneck constraint instead of hiding it — and why this is actually a feature, not a bug. How to use the weakest link as a forcing function for systemic improvement.
- · Kanban
Want my elevator-pitch answer to what is Kanban for a Scrum rookie?
A simple elevator-pitch explanation of Kanban for Scrum practitioners — what Kanban adds, what it changes, and why both approaches are complementary rather than competing.
- · Agile
Why I think slack is highly important during an Agile/Kanban transition
Slack is not wasted capacity — it is the prerequisite for improvement, learning, and sustainable delivery. Why teams and organizations need breathing room during agile/Kanban transitions.