backlogs
Unfinished work piles
Backlogs are accumulations of unfinished work or unfilled orders.
A company with more orders than it can immediately fulfill has a backlog—often a positive sign of demand.
But backlogs of paperwork, emails, or maintenance suggest falling behind: The court system has a massive backlog of cases.
In software development, a backlog is a prioritized list of features or tasks awaiting implementation.
Sequential vehicular collision
- buildupGradual accumulation over time
- queueOrdered waiting line
- overflowExceed capacity and spill
- surplusAmount exceeding requirement
glut · bottleneck · congestion · logjam · stack · volume · workload · caseload
Delaying to later
- defermentAuthorized delay of obligation
- holdupTheft by threat
- lagPeriod of falling behind
- waitingRemaining in expectation
stalling · slippage · overdue · setback · slowdown · procrastination · rescheduling · delayed
Accumulated reserve supply
- warehouseBulk goods storage building
- stockGoods kept for sale
- suppliesResources for a task
- goodsThings for sale
items · reserve · replenishment · storage · fulfillment · orders · shipments · allocation
pileup
Sequential vehicular collision
surplus · glut · bottleneck · congestion · logjam · stack · volume · workload · caseload · pending
postponement
Delaying to later
waiting · stalling · slippage · overdue · setback · slowdown · procrastination · rescheduling · delayed · pending
stockpile
Accumulated reserve supply
goods · items · reserve · replenishment · storage · fulfillment · orders · shipments · allocation · demand
sprint
Brief maximum-speed effort
- groomingSelf-care for appearance
- refinementElegance of manner
- prioritizationRanking by importance
tickets · Jira · Scrum · epic · roadmap · velocity · release · iteration · planning · triage
overwhelm
Defeat by excess
weight · overload · crunch · burnout · anxiety · fatigue · juggling · drowning · swamped · stretched
- bureaucracybureaucracy, bureaucrat, bureaucrats, red tape, civil service
- productivityproductivity, checking off, prioritization, finishing, output
- factory problemsdefects, breakdowns, downtime, bottlenecks, delays
- immigration dataadmission rates, approval rates, immigration quotas, green cards, deportations
- crime datacrime trends, arrest rate, incarceration rate, violent crime rate, property crime
- immigrationimmigrant, immigrants, visa, refugee, citizenship
backlogscaught up
Became current or involved
clean slate · completions · up to date · all done · current
backlogsreal-time processing
Computation without perceptible delay
up to date · on schedule · ahead of schedule · throughput · currency