[justin_oaks]

I wish companies would do this kind of analysis within their own projects. Probably not every project since doing this analysis would add overhead, but perhaps a small sampling of arbitrary projects.

How are we supposed to optimize things if we don't know where the time and effort is going to? How are we supposed to estimate, especially when a huge chunk of the extra time may be caused by an inefficient part of the process, caused by specific people (say, who like to schedule useless meetings), or caused by external factors?

Instead we see people choosing arbitrary things to blame, and business goes on as usual.