Lately on the
IXP mailing list there has been considerable discussion on renaming the XP practice of Sustainable Pace to
Slack, in the Tom DeMarco sense-of-the-word. This got me thinking back about what it was like on Waterfall projects and wondering how we handled issues like this back then. I then realized that Waterfall has "slack" baked right in: we just called it the Analysis and Design Phase...