Define: "Herding cats" in Business
Multi-headcount capital waste
"Managing engineers. Bribe them with pizza and energy drinks."
Attempting to control or organize a group of inherently uncontrollable entities.
What does "Herding cats" actually mean?
"Trying to get three developers, a project manager, and a client on the same call."
"Coordinating schedules across four different time zones feels a bit like herding cats."
"Getting the networking, security, and dev teams to agree on a unified IP schema is quite literally like herding cats through a minefield."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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