85. Leakage
Time and money tend to “escape” from closely measured categories into less closely measured categories.
Now here’s a dilemma: You’re busy perfecting some server-side code to enliven a small piece of the interface to your company’s new portal. You’ve just spent fifteen more hours on the damn thing, and it still isn’t right. As you’re puzzling over the code, a guy from the Program Management Office stops by, to bug you about your time sheet for the week: “Please log onto the PMO system immediately and fill in the numbers.” When you do, you realize that the activity you’ve been billing your time to for this work, “5321: Implement-Dynamic-Portal-Interface,” ...
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