hot stove

n.

  1. The person on the critical path of a project, especially by sheer majority of eir assigned tasks.

Hot stove can also be verbed, meaning to put someone on the critical path. Compare throw under the bus.

Posted by markpasc on January 23, 2007 in miscellany, whole cloth to 0 comments

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