Swarming

This blog item is dedicated to my students in SSM class of Oct 12-13, 2019! Clogged workflow? WIP at maximum? Work not flowing?; clogged at a certain phase of the flow and is now a bottleneck? Imagine this (see image below)... would you leave it to fester to learn a valuable lesson (large sizes are not good) and potential miss to deliver the iteration goal? Or do you address and remove the clog with the whole or part of the team so as not to impact the achievement of the iteration goal? The Pain Pleasure Principle (3Ps) determines your action.…