Number of "In Progess" tickets per person

[Humberto Test user1]

Let's suppose that the workflow is:

To Do <-> In Progress <-> Closed

It is possible to set a rule, to limit the number of "In progress" cases assigned to one person? 

The idea is: once someone set a ticket to "In progress", all other tickets where this person is assignee and status = In progress are automatically set to "To Do"

This will limit the number of "in progress" tickets per person to 1.

Thanks in advance.

Note:

Implementing a rule like this one, we are able to log work automatically.  (total Time time in "in Progress" status).

[Joe Pitt · Accepted solution]

Not out of the box. You would need a plugin or script. 

[Humberto Test user1]

testing "automated-log-work-for-jira" and is working pretty fine.