WIP limits

Setting your work-in-progress (WIP) limit target on Capacity

Trying to do too much at once only leads to less actually getting done. This is the core idea behind personal work-in-progress (WIP) limits.

On the Capacity page, you can choose a target WIP limit—that is, the target number of of active issues you want people to have at any given time. Active means any task in an active (Doing) status, excluding issues in Backlog or Done.

With your target set, we then show you how many people are at or under that limit (blue), above it (orange), or have no active work (grey). To see a person's assigned issues, simply click their name. If you like, you can modify their assignments directly in Socratic, which will synchronize any changes to Jira.

See also our Methods post: Fighting the tax that drains software teams.