Excluded resources

Ask what inputs your frame treats as free, unlimited, or somebody else's problem. Budget, tooling, shared systems, senior attention, headcount. These never appear in the explanation because nobody counted them, yet the work cannot happen without them.

Ask what inputs your frame treats as free, unlimited, or somebody else's problem. Budget, tooling, shared systems, senior attention, headcount. These never appear in the explanation because nobody counted them, yet the work cannot happen without them.

Example

On the slipping project, you find one staging environment shared by four teams and a queue to use it. The blamed team waits three days per test cycle. That resource appeared in no retrospective because it belongs to nobody's budget.