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Where good ideas go to age like milk, not wine.
means A backlog is the pile of tasks or work that has built up faster than anyone's gotten around to finishing it.
from Straightforwardly literal: 'back' plus 'log,' as in the big log placed at the back of a fire to keep it burning slow and long — the backup fuel waiting its turn. By the 1800s American lumber and milling trades were using it for stacked-up unprocessed timber or orders, and from there it slid naturally into the general sense of accumulated unfinished work.
- origin
- literally logs stacked behind a fire
- growth rate
- always outpaces completion rate
- true purpose
- makes you feel busy without doing
- sprint myth
- never actually gets shorter, just reordered