Technology on Marat Kiniabulatov | Agile Coach, OKR, PMO

Boosting Efficiency with WIP Aging Insights and Tools

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

When examining real workflow data, there’s a common pattern: clusters of tasks that have aged significantly, some clearly stagnating beyond ~~recognition~~ acceptable timeframes. These cases point to one of the most important yet very often overlooked metrics in flow management: WIP Aging.

WIP (Work In Progress) Aging measures the elapsed time that a work item has spent in active progress but remains incomplete. This metric serves as an early warning system for workflow problems, helping teams identify where work gets stuck before it significantly impacts delivery timelines. Unlike cycle time, which analyzes completed tasks retrospectively, WIP Aging provides real-time visibility into current work, making it the single most actionable metric for proactive flow management.

5 Reasons Why Your Story Points Aren't Working (And What to Do About It)

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Over seven years of running Story Points workshops, I’ve seen the same pattern: teams learn the technique, apply it for a few sprints, then gradually drift back to old habits. At my current scale — 47 teams, around 400 people in IT — 60% use Story Points, 40% don’t. What’s interesting: those 60% who do use them do it completely differently.

Even 3 months after the training, only 20-30% use Story Points correctly (as intended). The problem isn’t the tool itself, but how we use it and what we expect from it.

Product Operations: simple steps to build transparent Feature Pipeline to dramatically lower Lead Time

Tue, 07 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

(Experience from an AI-Based Fintech KYC SaaS Startup Focused on LATAM and Africa)

Your regular challenge: When Sales, Marketing and IT Speak Different Languages

Our SaaS startup served emerging fast-paced fintech markets (it still is). Speed + compliance were existential. Since most startups live on venture capital with limited runway, every delay in shipping value to the market means lost clients and regulatory risk. It also a huge roadblock on your path to become self-sustainable. So you need to be super frugal and efficient.

Minsk AUG Hosted!

Mon, 14 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Hey guys, good news - Minsk has it’s own Atlassian User Group now, me & StiltSoft kicked out the first event, gathered 60 RSVP’s in just one week, and had an amazing time in the beautiful city of Minsk, Belarus!

Hosted an event in an awesome Eventspace.by at the old factory!

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- <a title="AUG Minsk, SkuVault->Jira" href="/images/aug-minsk-skuvault-jira.pdf">AUG Minsk, SkuVault-Jira</a> - Speech on how we organized processes and workflows in Jira, and helped SkuVault become more transparent in development;
- [AUG Minsk, Stride](/images/aug-minsk-stride.pdf) - our experience in migration from Telegram to Atlassian Stride.

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Ufa AUG #1. Wrap Up

Wed, 07 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000

So we’ve survived Ufa Atlassian User Group, the very first meetup, with 17 people visiting our office to hear about jira, confluence, bitbucket and other atlassian products :)

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We’ve discussed how Jira helped us in reflecting SkuVault development processes, and how do we keep documentation on the feature in Confluence, until it’s released, and what info do we store there.

Panel consisted of Smena.io, modulbank, MEGI, and a couple other teams :) Presentation is available in Russian via this link: UfaAUG_1.