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In general use though slack has an even stronger connotation of e.g. slacking off and not doing anything useful with the time.
by ghaff 7mo ago
In general use though slack has an even stronger connotation of e.g. slacking off and not doing anything useful with the time.
- bigiain 7mo agoAlternatively, ensuring you have enough slack in the schedule is, at least for some tech leads and project managers, an essential tool to enable meeting deadlines. (So, I suppose using "slack" in a positive sense by project management, while probably still being considered a pejorative thing by non technical management or beancounters...)
- fendy3002 7mo agoyep, having some slack is the only way for someone / something to able to respond to uncertainty. technically having firefighter on standby and policemen on patrol are a form of slacking, and we (should) have no problem with that.