{"id":13207,"date":"2014-03-27T13:35:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T18:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/?p=13207"},"modified":"2020-03-12T13:36:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T18:36:50","slug":"why-and-how-to-limit-your-wip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/why-and-how-to-limit-your-wip\/","title":{"rendered":"Why and How to Limit Your WIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-thumbnail text-center video-thumbnail-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"vidyard-modal\" href=\"#modal-video-vidyard\" data-uuid=\"rRBkPrDoLh5eaGnRjaucGk\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"#modal-video-vidyard\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive center-block\" title=\"Video: Why and How to Limit Your WIP\" src=\"https:\/\/play.vidyard.com\/rRBkPrDoLh5eaGnRjaucGk.jpg\" alt=\"Video: Why and How to Limit Your WIP\" \/><i class=\"icon-play-circle-solid\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<p>In this webinar,\u00a0we\u00a0explain why setting work-in-progress limits is necessary if you want to establish and improve your flow of work.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Simply put, you can\u2019t do more work than you can handle. It makes sense, but with all the competing demands on our time, it\u2019s too easy to bite off more than we can chew \u2013 and that\u2019s when things can go awry. Our attention to detail suffers, tasks are left unfinished and the quality of our work is compromised. As a result, we\u2019re wasting time, effort and resources.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">While limiting your work-in-progress may seem difficult at first, you\u2019ll discover that prioritizing some tasks over others ultimately results in ALL of the tasks being completed sooner than they would have if you\u2019d started them all at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this webinar,\u00a0we\u00a0explain why setting work-in-progress limits is necessary if you want to establish and improve your flow of work. Simply put, you can\u2019t do more work than you can handle. 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