{"id":7064,"date":"2018-09-02T12:30:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T07:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/?p=7064"},"modified":"2018-08-31T22:03:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T16:33:39","slug":"swarming-glossary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/02\/swarming-glossary\/","title":{"rendered":"Swarming | Glossary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Definition:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Swarming is when team members with appropriate skills work together to complete a task that a team member is having trouble completing on his or her own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How It\u2019s Used: Swarming is used to quickly bring a task or work item to completion before moving on to the next in order to keep workflow and delivery on track. Kanban teams in particular use swarming to ensure continuous workflow and maintain Work-in-Progress (WIP) limits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Project Management Benefits:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keeps workflow and delivery on track.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maintains WIP limits in Kanban.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Encourages team collaboration.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Further Reading: <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Book:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager&#8217;s Guide by Craig Larman<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definition: Swarming is when team members with appropriate skills work together to complete a task that a team member is having trouble completing on his or her own. How It\u2019s Used: Swarming is used to quickly bring a task or work item to completion before moving on to the next in order to keep workflow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":7065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102],"tags":[105,1107,1106],"class_list":["post-7064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glossary","tag-glossary","tag-september","tag-swarming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Swarming.png?fit=3125%2C1709","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Rui8-1PW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7066,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7064\/revisions\/7066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}