Define: "Rag the Puck" in Business
High risk of unnecessary meetings
"Always keep two minor cosmetic bugs open in the sprint backlog so you can claim you are still doing 'regression testing' through Friday afternoon."
The deliberate pacing of project execution or meeting discussions to maintain control of current resources and timelines before committing to new initiatives.
What does "Rag the Puck" actually mean?
"We finished the deployment two days ago, but if we tell management now they will immediately dump four broken legacy migrations on our plate before Friday."
"The team decided to rag the puck on phase two until the Q4 headcount budget is officially signed off."
"We have 15 minutes left on the architecture review call, so rag the puck by asking the vendor about their 2028 roadmap before Bob tries to assign us new action items."
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18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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