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CRN-1003 - Strict Work-in-Progress (WIP) Limits for Solopreneur Focus

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Strict Work-in-Progress (WIP) Limits for Solopreneur Focus

Attempting to advance ten parallel software repositories simultaneously guarantees context-switching overhead and incomplete feature sets. Enforcing strict Work-in-Progress (WIP) limits forces linear completion over infinite accumulation.

WIP Enforcement Invariants

  • Single Active Stream Rule: The Careen engine permits at most two features to occupy the In-Flight column simultaneously.
  • Blocked State Escalation: If a task stalls awaiting dependency resolution, it shifts to Quarantine until unblocked, freeing slot capacity.
  • Completion Velocity Metrics: Tracking completed dispatches per tide cycle reveals true cognitive throughput without vanity metrics.

Bounding active multitasking protects product quality and accelerates time-to-ship.

  • Directus Target: careen-blog
  • Garden Source Reference: MOC - Careen Project Management, TRC-1002 - Bounded Execution Contexts, BSN-1015 - Eliminating Context Switch Overhead in Multi-Agent Loops

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