========= To increase throughput and reduce waste, agile teams often adopt the practice of Limiting Work-in-Progress (WIP) . High levels of WIP often lead to " context switching, " which slows down individual tasks and increases the time it takes to deliver any single increment of value. By limiting the number of stories being worked on concurrently, the team can focus their collective energy on finishing current tasks before starting new ones. This " stop starting, start finishing " mentality improves the flow of work and ensures that value is delivered to the customer more rapidly. Furthermore, reducing WIP makes bottlenecks more visible, allowing the team to address process inefficiencies in real-time. This focus on flow and speed is a central component of an agile mindset aimed at maximizing the delivery of outcomes with minimal delay.

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