{"id":26595,"date":"2018-07-29T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/premier_developer\/?p=26595"},"modified":"2019-02-14T20:17:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T03:17:56","slug":"the-importance-of-limiting-your-wip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/the-importance-of-limiting-your-wip\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Limiting Your WIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Consultant, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/assafstone\/\">Assaf Stone<\/a> follows up on his <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/premier_developer\/2018\/07\/13\/wip-your-product-into-shape\/\">previous post<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; why it&#8217;s important to limit WIP (Work In Progress).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>So, There\u2019s This Little Law\u2026<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Little%27s_law\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Laws\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/devmanwalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Laws.png?zoom=2&amp;resize=240%2C195\" alt=\"Laws\" width=\"240\" height=\"195\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/>Little\u2019s Law<\/a> describes the relationship between the average throughput in a system, the average process time (a.k.a. Cycle Time) for an item in the system, and the amount of items being processed at the same time (your WIP). For the mathematically inclined reader, this relationship is described in the following formula: <strong>L=<i>\u03bb<\/i><\/strong><strong>W<\/strong>, or in other words, the <em>long-term average <\/em>WIP (L) is equal to the <em>long-term average <\/em>throughput (<i>\u03bb<\/i>) multiplied by the average wait\/process\/cycle time (W).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/devmanwalking.com\/2018\/06\/29\/the-importance-of-limiting-your-wip\/\">Read the full post on Assaf\u2019s blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Consultant, Assaf Stone follows up on his previous post \u2013 why it\u2019s important to limit WIP (Work In Progress).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":582,"featured_media":27423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,22],"tags":[34,21,121],"class_list":["post-26595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alm","category-devops","tag-alm","tag-devops","tag-tfs"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Senior Consultant, Assaf Stone follows up on his previous post \u2013 why it\u2019s important to limit WIP (Work In Progress).<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/582"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}