If you’re always late, a faster car won’t help

Posted by Robert Merrill on March 2, 2010 under Estimation, Project Set-Up, Software-Intensive Businesses | Be the First to Comment

Q: Why were they late for the meeting?

A: They didn’t leave soon enough.

But…they got stopped by a train, and they remembered that they needed to pick up a loaf of bread, and…they have a slow car!

Details like speed limits and the police aside, what do the car, and the bread, and the train have to do with it? The trip took 25 minutes, five of it spent waiting for the train, and five of it in the convenience store, and fifteen of it driving. They left 20 minutes before the meeting, and they were five minutes late.

Well, they didn’t plan on the train or the bread.

Do they ever plan on the train or the bread? Read more of this article »