Agile Pantry
Practice

Swarming

From Kanban, Lean

When an item is stuck, people pause new work to help finish it.

Meeting time noneLearning curve Easy

Helps with

too much work in progresshand-offs and waiting

How to start

When a WIP limit is hit, the rule is: help, don’t start.

It’s working when

Fewer items wait for “the one person who knows”.