Limit your WIP

  • January 7, 2019
  • Roeland Matthijssens

We want to deliver value to the customer as fast as possible.
We can increase the delivery speed by focusing the team’s effort on getting single tasks from To Do to Done as fast as possible. In general we prefer finishing an already started task before picking up a new one. A ticket that is 80% finished has 0% value for the customer but costed 80% of the time. Having many of these half finished tickets on the board can quickly add up in cost.
Enter WIP limits.
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Pull, don't push

  • January 5, 2019
  • Roeland Matthijssens

Currently

This is the current life cycle of a ticket on the Jira board.

In Progress

When the developer is looking for something to do they open the Jira board and look at the To Do column. Because the sprint planners did their job properly they can simply take the ticket at the top of the column and know that the priorities are right.
So they pull the ticket from To Do into In Progress.
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