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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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4 termsAging WIP
Aging WIP shows the elapsed time since selected work entered progress and remains unfinished. It helps teams see risk in current work before a slow item becomes a completed-item statistic.
Flow and capacity planningArrival rate
Arrival rate is the number of work items entering a defined workflow during a stated interval. It describes incoming demand, not the amount of work a team finishes.
Flow and capacity planningAvailable capacity
Available capacity is a concept used in software delivery planning to describe a condition, relationship, estimate, or decision about engineering work.
Flow and capacity planningAverage queue time
Average queue time is the arithmetic mean of time spent waiting at a selected stage. It can summarize a queue, but a few old items may make the mean unlike the experience of most work.
Flow and capacity planning