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You should ask yourself where the WIP comes from. Are there people in your org (job description ending with "nager") that get paid for creating new tasks?
by choeger 6y ago
You should ask yourself where the WIP comes from. Are there people in your org (job description ending with "nager") that get paid for creating new tasks?
- quickthrower2 6y agoBe suspicious of any activity added to workload that hasn’t been scrutinised. A pet peeve of a nager isn’t necessarily the most valuable thing to work on. Neither is necessarily the work that makes the salespersons job a bit easier to sell the product.
- doctor_eval 6y agoI’d add to this that, from the perspective of a manager or the sales team, the opportunity cost of a feature request is almost always zero, while the opportunity cost to the team implementing it can be huge. The best features are ones where the requester has skin in the game. How often have I said “yes I can do B, but then you won’t get A” - suddenly, B becomes a lot less important.