Tag: pull system
One Reason Why WIP limits Matter There are different reasons why limiting the work in progress (WIP limit) is a good thing, but now I would like to talk about one special case where WIP limits are helping move things forward. Let's assume that you have a working pull system which means that the team members don't push the work on others, but others can take the work if they are capable to handle them (I'm not using the word free on purpose because what if somebody can work on two things in parallel).
more...The Hidden Inventory A couple of days ago, I had a quick conversation with an old friend of mine about the place of done columns - also known as inventories - on the Kanban board. He wanted to know if the internal done column - where the work items that have been completed in that phase are kept -, or the internal queue column - where the work items done in the previous phase -, was the better option.
more...The Problems of the Capacity Utilization I found a very interesting quote that I wrote in one of my notebooks a long time ago.
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