Your team is working on an e-commerce platform using Kanban. The team has a board with columns: To Do, In Progress, Code Review, Testing, and Done. The team notices that work items are piling up in the Code Review column, and the flow of work has slowed significantly. What is the BEST action the team should take to address this bottleneck?

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The correct answer is B. Implementing or reducing the Work In Progress (WIP) limit for the Code Review column helps manage flow by preventing too many items from accumulating at the bottleneck. This forces the team to address the constraint by having more people help with code reviews or by limiting how much new work enters the system until the bottleneck clears. This is a core Kanban practice for optimizing flow. Option A is incorrect because adding more work to a bottlenecked system will only worsen the problem, creating more pile-up in Code Review. The goal is to address the constraint, not feed it with more work. WIP limits help teams visualize and manage flow constraints effectively.

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