Arun Parameswaran: Using Scrumban and WIP Limits to Help Agile Teams Find Focus

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"The WIP limit helped the developers not context switch." - Arun Parameswaran

Arun brought a practical challenge to the Wednesday coaching conversation: a team doing both operations and development work needed more visibility and focus than their Scrum board was giving them. The trigger was context switching. Work stayed "in progress" even when blocked, people picked up new topics before finishing old ones, and stakeholders kept asking what was actually happening. Arun helped the team experiment with Scrumban, keeping useful Scrum events while adding a Kanban-style board and explicit WIP limits