Rescue the Aging Card
Use work item age to decide when to intervene in a stuck work item.
Live board signal A payments bug has been in Test for nine calendar days. The team average is three, the release train leaves Friday, and everyone keeps saying it is 'basically done.' Work item age is an early-warning metric: the longer active work has already waited, the more deliberately you inspect its remaining risk. The Kanban Guide: Work Item Age Signal -> Policy -> Flow Action Age changes the conversation from sentiment to evidence. Cycle time tells you how long finished items took; work item age tells you how risky unfinished items are right now. When a card is older…
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