The amount of work in progress

Another thing you can measure is the amount of work in progress at any point in time. DevOps is focusing on the flow of value to the user. This implies that everyone should, if possible, be doing only one thing at a time and completely finish that before moving on to something else. This reduces the amount of time spent on task switching and the amount of time spent on not yet complete work. Measuring how many things a team works on in parallel and reporting on this can encourage this.

You can even go as far as putting actual limits on the amount of work that can be in progress. The following is a small part of the earlier screenshot, showing that these work-in-progress limits can even be shown in the tool:

The goal is to have as little work in progress at the same time as possible.

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