ORG-14
Tribe WIP Exceeds Configured Limit
Org Capacity
Default severity: medium
ProcessOutputRiskEffort
What it detects
summed active WIP of people whose primary tribe is this tribe exceeds tribes.wip_limit; tests; catalogue.
Detection formula
No published identification formula is available yet for this rule.Examples in practice
- Roster FTE, sharing scope, or team mapping disagrees with observed assignments and worklogs.
- A squad or tribe commitment exceeds configured capacity, or a person works outside declared sharing.
- A team shows summed active wip of people whose primary tribe is this tribe exceeds tribes during analysis.
Suggested response
Reconcile roster FTE, sharing scope, and observed work so capacity matches how people actually deliver.
Coaching playbook
Symptom
The "Tribe WIP Exceeds Configured Limit" signal shows a repeatable delivery anti-pattern on the cited issues.
Why it matters
When "Tribe WIP Exceeds Configured Limit" keeps appearing, the team is signalling a repeatable process gap. Left unexamined, the pattern hides where work really stalls and makes improvement metrics harder to trust.
What you can achieve
Reconcile roster FTE, sharing scope, and observed work so capacity matches how people actually deliver.
Facilitation questions
- What system change would stop "Tribe WIP Exceeds Configured Limit" from firing again?
- What do the cited issues have in common — same root cause or same workaround?
- Who owns the two-week experiment and how will we verify on the next import?
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