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Is your development team slowed down by the number of items they currently have in progress? It's hard to identify what all is in progress when the work is invisible. That's why I highly recommend finding a visualization for your team's WIP. I've worked with many organizations to map out their workflows and WIP, and jaws drop every time when the visualizations reveal how much work is currently in progress. And that's the thing about WIP—the more work items you have in progress, the slower each individual item becomes. That's why visualizing it can be a powerful part of speeding up your team. Listen to this full episode at the link in the comments, or find Agile Bites on your favorite podcast platform. #agile #agility #agilesoftwaredevelopment #techleadership #WIP
100% agree to everything that you are saying here. We have a pernicious problem with individuals in the organization knowing who the expert developer is on a particular piece of software and going to them directly for assistance without opening the proper tickets or going through the product owner. This happens across multiple teams. I say pernicious because multiple VPs and directors have attempted to enforce the new ticketing system, with full buy in and support of the product owners, but the business and even the developers themselves sometimes the developers themselves undermine us. One of the constant complaints is it takes longer to open the ticket than it does to do the work. On the other hand, if you’re doing 20 of those type of tasks, it adds up.
Great words. The added benefit of mapping also opens the doors to tracking underlying dependencies that are throttling effort.
I really enjoy doing this type of exercise with teams, as you say - jaw dropping every time!
I take the risk out of your software development projects and make them valuable, efficient, and predictable.
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