I used to find this quite an appealing analysis - don’t waste time on busywork after all. We’ve all heard that advice. I’m not sure it works in practice. What

I used to find this quite an appealing analysis - don’t waste time on busywork after all. We’ve all heard that advice. I’m not sure it works in practice. What happens if every time you go to solving one of these problems, you go about three layers deep in your analysis rather than to the root cause. Sometimes it isn’t a Yak to be shaved but actually something that done right, can save you a lot of time and effort. Particularly in a field like software development where the cost of rework is very high. As construction friends of mine like to say, concrete erasers are expensive.