# University limits every research group to eleven open projects

> A School of Continuous Improvement poster counts the open projects in the bags of 412 craft-circle members and sets the University's ceiling on open work from the result.

Eleven is now the most open projects a University research group may hold, and the figure was taken from a trestle table. "Notes on the Project Bag", a research poster released today by the School of Continuous Improvement, reports what 412 members of 38 craft circles were carrying when their bags were tipped out and counted.

> A bag is where a person keeps the version of themselves that has time. We were pleased to be shown inside.
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> --- Sten Okwuosa, Senior Research Fellow and Convenor, Impact Pathway Atlas

The poster, by Sten Okwuosa with Edda Nwafor and Thandiwe Solberg, sets out how many projects a member keeps open and where the dormant ones were left. Most members hold a handful, a few hold a great many, and the projects that stop moving tend to stop at the same point in the making.

The School has taken the ninetieth percentile of the circles as the University's own limit. A research group may open a twelfth project only against one finished or frogged, and the move is entered at the next Review Cadence Observatory review. The intake form gains a new field for the stage at which work last moved.

The University is content to take its limits from people who already live comfortably beneath them.

The full poster is available from the University's research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.thwmjd.