A team needs some spare capacity to deliver at full potential.
It may sound counterintuitive, but a team working at 100% capacity is brittle and inefficient. Some spare capacity, or slack, is necessary to hit peak throughput. Slack lets the team adapt when reality inevitably throws a wrench in the works.
cranberryturkey•4mo ago
slack is enterprise garbage. our team just switched to https://qrypt.chat
JohnFen•4mo ago
That's not the "slack" the article is talking about.
henrikje•4mo ago
Maybe I should have named the post "The Importance of Slack (No, not that Slack)". :-P
henrikje•4mo ago
It may sound counterintuitive, but a team working at 100% capacity is brittle and inefficient. Some spare capacity, or slack, is necessary to hit peak throughput. Slack lets the team adapt when reality inevitably throws a wrench in the works.