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This is used to describe the progress someone has to make to gain experience or learn a new skill set. She is welcome to join our team, but there will be a steep LEARNING ______.
What is a Learning Curve?
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This is used in situations where someone, usually a new coworker, needs to learn the basics of how something is done. The three new members of our project team will need to LEARN THE _______ now.

What is to Learn The Ropes?

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Idle work is

work that we want to do (such as building or testing 

something) but can’t do because something is preventing us

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which is more expensive in a scrum project? idle work or idle workers and why?

in Scrum, we are highly aware that finding the bottlenecks in the flow of work and focusing our efforts on eliminating them is a far more economically sensible activity than trying to keep everyone 100% busy.

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This means to keep doing something without achieving any real results. In other words, you’re doing a lot of unnecessary work but not getting anywhere. The deadline is coming up, but we’ve been RUNNING AROUND IN _________ because the client keeps changing their mind about the design.

What is Running Around In Circles?

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This means to bring something of use or benefit (skills, experience, etc.) to a job or business activity (project, meeting, etc.) We need someone on the team who can BRING project management experience TO THE ________.
What is to Bring To The Table?
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This idiom means to start over, but it’s used more often to describe going back to the first stage of a project or process. Our design for small family homes wasn’t approved so we have to GO BACK TO THE DRAWING _______.
What is to Go Back To The Drawing Board?
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When it’s time to start seriously focusing on the actual work, it’s time to get down to business. We’ve got 25 business proposals to cover today so let’s GET _____ TO BUSINESS.
What is To Get Down To Business?
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the baton stting on the ground refers to

work that is waiting to be done or is blocked in a project.

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the relay race llustrates...

 that we should watch the work and not the worker, get things done instead of finding more work for our team in their time.

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This means to look at the overall view of something, or the situation as a whole and not at the details. I think his presentation was too long and detailed. He should’ve just given us THE BIG _______.
What is The Big Picture?
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This means to start doing a job or project, usually after much discussion or planning. Months after looking into how to boost declining sales, we were finally able to get our aggressive sales campaign ___ THE GROUND.
What is To Get Off The Ground?
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This idiom means that you’re taking shortcuts and using the easiest, quickest and cheapest way to do something. If we CUT ________, we can probably meet our sales target for the last quarter.
What is to Cut Corners?
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This means doing it strictly according to the rules, policies or the law. I don’t think John will listen to your suggestion. He insists on doing everything BY THE ______.
What is By The Book?
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This idiom means to contact someone. I have a meeting right now but I’ll TOUCH ____ with you later.
What is to Touch Base?
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This idiom is usually used to describe something that has a very small chance of happening or succeeding. Landing such a high-paying job is A _____ SHOT, but I’m still going to give it a try
What is A Long Shot?
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should we hire a documenter at the end of the project in the middle or at the start?

In the middle so we avoid paying extra fees and we may give him/her time to do the job without delaying the project.

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idle workers refers to

 people who have available capacity to do more work because they are not currently 100% utilized.

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higher use of teammates or resources in a computer means...

higher rate of delay , slows down a process

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Cost of delay is 

he financial cost associated with delaying work or delaying achievement of a milestone.