Empower Teams to Enforce WIP Limits & Say No to Excess Work

This standard mandates empowering teams to enforce Work-in-Progress (WIP) limits and say no to excess work to ensure teams have the authority to protect flow efficiency.

1. Empower Teams to Enforce WIP Limits & Say No to Excess Work:

Ensure teams have the authority to protect flow efficiency. This approach ensures that teams can maintain sustainable workloads.

• 1.1 Excessive Demand Pushback:
  • 1.1.1 WIP Limit Protection:
    • Encourage engineers to push back on excessive demands that exceed WIP limits.
    • Automate the tracking of pushback actions.
  • 1.1.2 Pushback Management:
    • Automate the tracking of WIP limit enforcement.
    • Implement pushback tutorials.
• 1.2 Leadership Support:
  • 1.2.1 Sustainable Workload Enforcement:
    • Ensure leadership supports teams enforcing sustainable workloads.
    • Automate the tracking of leadership support.
  • 1.2.2 Support Management:
    • Automate the tracking of sustainable workload implementations.
    • Implement support feedback collection.
• 1.3 Collaborative WIP Adjustment:
  • 1.3.1 Real-World Constraint Adaptation:
    • Provide a framework where teams can collaboratively adjust WIP limits based on real-world constraints.
    • Automate the tracking of collaborative adjustments.
  • 1.3.2 Adjustment Management:
    • Automate the tracking of constraint-based adjustments.
    • Implement adjustment tutorials.

By empowering teams, organisations can ensure sustainable workloads and protect flow efficiency.