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    Harm No. 5 of Kanban Column WIP Limits: Loss of Focus

    Column WIP Limits are harmful!

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    Steve Tendon

    Steve Tendon

    Founder & Managing Director, TameFlow Consulting Limited, and creator of the TameFlow Approach.

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    Column WIP limits…

    … divert focus away from the real constraint, and divert attention away from the throughput of the entire system. Without the right focus, there is no leverage.

    Quoted from: Tame the Flow.

    Tags: Chronologist, Kanban, WIP Limits

    Updated: September 30, 2013

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