Work In Pro... (WIP)

Today, I read the legendary article Standing on the Shoulders of Giants, an excellent summary of knowledge from Henry Ford, Taiichi Ohno and Eliyahu Goldratt.

It relates to Kanban, Theory of Constrains, Toyota Production System, Lean Manufacturing, Drum Buffer Rope, Just-In-Time Production, Critical Chain. It is a stuff that I first heard of at my Polytechnic. Then I learned about it when working on Enterprise Resource Planning and Material Requirements Planning systems for the first 5 years of my commercial career as a software engineer.

These topics have been the origin of many things we do when building digital products.

But what got my attention is…

We all say Work In Progress.

This article says:

“[…] Work In Process […]”

- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants, Eliyahu M. Goldratt

And I think it’s beautiful.

My conclusion was - this is what they say in the Theory of Constraints community.

But then I opened Kanban, Wikipedia, which says “work in process (commonly referred as "WIP")”.

In Progress and In Process are probably being used interchangeably today.

I am wondering. Who made a fork of this branch?

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