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Flow and capacity planning glossary

Make sense of queues, work in progress, forecasting, and team capacity. These concepts explain why a busy team can still struggle to finish work.

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  • Work breakdown structure

    Work breakdown structure is a concept used in software delivery planning to describe a condition, relationship, estimate, or decision about engineering work.

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  • Work in progress

    Work in progress is work that has started but has not reached the workflow's agreed finish point. It includes active implementation as well as started items waiting for review, clarification, testing, or another dependency.

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  • Work item age

    Work item age is the time that has passed since a selected start event for an item that is not yet complete. It makes unfinished work visible and helps teams find items at risk of exceeding a service expectation.

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  • Work item priority

    Work item priority is a concept used in software delivery planning to describe a condition, relationship, estimate, or decision about engineering work.

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  • Workflow boundary

    A workflow boundary is a defined event at which measurement begins or ends, such as ready, implementation started, merged, deployed, or released. Boundaries make two otherwise similar flow measures comparable or explain why they differ.

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  • Workflow state

    A workflow state is a meaningful condition in a work system, such as ready, implementing, reviewing, blocked, or done. States should have explicit entry and exit policies so movement can be observed consistently.

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  • Workflow transition

    A workflow transition is an observable change in a work item's state, such as entering review, becoming blocked, or reaching done. Transitions supply the event history used to measure flow and waiting.

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  • WSJF

    WSJF is a concept used in software delivery planning to describe a condition, relationship, estimate, or decision about engineering work.

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