18th
November
2006
How Two Hours Can Waste Two Weeks
“Your developers have just planned a two week iteration. The next day Sarah continues her work on the completion of an important New Project. And here it comes - Urgent Stuff… If Sarah spends just two hours thinking of her old project, she loses a day of productive work on the new one. One day is 10% of a carefully planned iteration wasted if she spends 2 hours sidetracked.”