something you weren’t aware of that needs to happen before you can finish.
— Making Work Visible, Second Edition, Dominica Degrandis
Unknown Dependencies
2 of our books define this term — and their definitions are worth reading side by side.
Unknown dependencies: Something unexpected that needs to happen in order to finish work.
— Flow Engineering, in “8 Future State Value Stream Mapping”, Steve Pereira & Andrew Davis
See also A3 · Capacity Utilization · Conflicting Priorities · Constraint · Context Switch · Cycle Time
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