The phrase we used to use a lot at work is 'Salami Slicing'. This was used to refer to time but more often to budgets, especially with the connotation that a budget proposed by a bid team would be reduced in lots of small ways before it went to the customer- e.g. to make the bid competitive, increase profit margins, increase the risk budget and many more.
The salami slicing almost always made it hard to produce a good solution within the eventual budget available to the engineers.
The phrase we used to use a lot at work is 'Salami Slicing'. This was used to refer to time but more often to budgets, especially with the connotation that a budget proposed by a bid team would be reduced in lots of small ways before it went to the customer- e.g. to make the bid competitive, increase profit margins, increase the risk budget and many more.
The salami slicing almost always made it hard to produce a good solution within the eventual budget available to the engineers.