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Why limit work in progress?

Starting more tasks at once does not necessarily speed up delivery. A work-in-progress limit is a team agreement that encourages finishing.

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How to apply it

Observe in-progress and review queues on the Taskending board. Agree on a trial limit suited to capacity. When it is reached, help finish work or remove a blocker before starting more. This describes a team practice, not a promise of automatic WIP enforcement.

A concrete example

If two developers work on six records without getting any ready for review, reducing concurrency may help. When the review queue grows, limiting only implementation misses the bottleneck.

What to watch for

Do not turn the limit into punishment. For urgent exceptions, show which work is being paused. Moving a card merely to reduce the count does not reduce actual load.

How to check the outcome

After a week or two, compare completed flow and waiting reasons. The aim is predictable completion, not a board with fewer visible cards.

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