With too many tasks opened at the same time the only thing you achieve is a huge amount of frustration. Control your WIP or suffer.
Tag: work in process
Work In Process or Work in Progress or simply WIP. All the “work items” that you started working on, but haven’t finished yet, count as WIP. Some approaches – e.g. kanban – focus on limiting the WIP believing that high WIP is a source of many organizational problems.
A penalty for high WIP, or why spreading yourself thin will kill you
Too many tasks opened lead to various problems. Let us have a closer look at them.
What is WIP (Work in Progress)
WiP – Work In Progress. You better make sure you keep it at reasonable level.