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Key Info
Slicing breaks large initiatives into smaller, independently movable pieces to make progress visible.
Big items stay stuck. Small slices move.
Large flight items — initiatives, epics, big projects — are explicitly broken into smaller, independently movable pieces. The slicing process itself becomes a visible step on the board.
The Problem
Large work items sit on the board for weeks without moving. Progress is invisible. Feedback takes forever. And nobody quite knows if the thing is 10% done or 90% done.
How It Works
- Items are too large to be worked on directly or tracked meaningfully
- You want progress to be visible in small steps
- Multiple initiatives are running simultaneously (combine with swimlanes)
Related Patterns
- Slicing & Merging — adds the explicit merging step when slices need to recombine into a deliverable
- Connecting FL — the mechanism for handing sliced work to FL1 teams
Your play!
Get the cards and maps — all 18 FL2 Flow Patterns plus the new "Identify your Flow" companion map (A3 + A2 in EN, A3 in DE), ready to use in your next FL2 workshop or board design session.