What's a good word to use instead of "housekeeping" to describe those necessary but mostly unrewarded and unacknowledged tasks that happen on a project?
"Housekeeping" captures it, but it reeks of sexism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housekeeping#Social_significance
"Administrivia" doesn't capture it either, because most of this stuff is the work itself, or work to enable work. It's not planning and reporting.
Any ideas?
Amin Girasol /
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2024-12-15 12:02:18
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