> 30 minute to complete and are usually things I could do in less time Why don't you? Surely there are ways of granting the required access in your organizatio

> 30 minute to complete and are usually things I could do in less time Why don't you? Surely there are ways of granting the required access in your organization? If the answer is something akin to "not my job", then you have an organization that values intercommunicating pieces each with strict responsibilities. It should be expected that communication completely dominates output performance. If properly tuned, such organizations can achieve good quality, and if the duties are well specified, also great throughput. But they will never have low latency, as turnaround time is sacrificed for other tings. The example of a week long estimation for a trivial task is pretty much expected then. In a fully booked schedule, any new task is not likely to be scheduled for weeks. If that task then requires the attention of more than one person, because of the above fine grained responsibilities, those turnaround times really start to add up. If that's not a good fit for the job at hand, the organization is just not suited for the task.