projects and tasks that compete with each other; this is exacerbated when you are uncertain about what the most important thing is to do.
— Making Work Visible, Second Edition, Dominica Degrandis
Conflicting Priorities
2 of our books define this term — and their definitions are worth reading side by side.
Conflicting priorities: Projects and tasks that compete with each other for attention.
— Flow Engineering, in “8 Future State Value Stream Mapping”, Steve Pereira and Andrew Davis
See also A3 · Capacity Utilization · Constraint · Context Switch · Cycle Time · Failure Demand
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