Quotes About WIP

until code is in production, no value is actually being generated, because it's merely WIP stuck in the system.

They also knew that until code is in production, no value is actually being generated, because it's merely WIP stuck in the system.

What that graph says is that everyone needs idle time, or slack time. If no one has slack time, wip gets stuck in the system. Or more specifically, stuck in queues, just waiting.

I listen to Wes and Patty brainstorm ideas to reduce yet another dependency on Brent when something starts to bother me. Erik called WIP, or work in process, the "silent killer," and that inability to control WIP on the plant floor was one of the root causes for chronic due-date problems and quality issues.

An interesting side effect of pull systems is that they limit work-in-progress (WIP) to some agreed-upon quantity

One of the biggest advantages of these three demand-focused approaches, demand blocking, WIP purging, and flexible requirements, is the speed with which they can be executed.