Definition:
This is when multiple stakeholders end up fighting over limited resources in a corporate environment.
Explanation:
This is a term used during those sporadic times in every corporation where budgets suddenly become tight, the reason makes no difference, every manager, director or stakeholder suddenly frantically scrabble around for every bit of budget, even pinching off each other, sometimes pillaging general usage pots and generally behaving in a very scrabbly way 1, but if you are watching it, it can look like the children’s game of the same name.
Disclaimer: As always these posts are not aimed at anyone client or employer and are just my personal observations over a lifetime of dealing with both management and frontline associates.
- all for perfectly valid reasons, they’re just protecting their projects[↩]