The Single Greatest Lever in Shortening Cycle Time

This post is the second article in our Tactical Guide to a Shorter Cycle Time five-part series. Read the previous post here.

Cycle. Time. Get it?

You discover your engineering team has a long Cycle Time compared to the rest of the organization or compared to the industry’s top performers. Now what?

WIP—Work in…What?

Scrum and Kanban are a great combination. With this insight more and more, Scrum Teams become aware of terms and phrases used in Kanban. Like "WIP."

When I have used this acronym in the past I have read it as "work in progress." In his book, The Goal, Eliyahu M. Goldratt uses "work in process." I realized this but didn't give it much thought.