Discussing “getting to done”, Leah Cunningham defines outputs as “the things we build” and outcomes as “the difference that our things make” and mostly I find myself wondering how that fits into my favorite Oxford English Dictionary definition of “slack” as being “the length of time in critical path analysis by which a particular event can be delayed without delaying the completion of the overall objective” and how by this definition in my life as a whole I am a slacker who has yet even to determine the overall objective.

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Addenda

1. And now I’m wondering how the “minimum viable product” premise (via Jennifer Dziura), in which you have “just enough core features to effectively deploy the product, and no more”, can be shoehorned into this whole thing.

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