The meeting room bottleneck
A team says it needs more meeting rooms because every room is booked. Booking data shows that 38 percent of reservations are never used. What should the team test before paying for more space?
Real World challenge at medium difficulty.
Hint
Separate apparent demand from consumed capacity.
Answer and method
Test automatic release of rooms when nobody checks in, shorten default reservation length, and measure occupancy rather than bookings. Compare actual room-hours used before and after. Only then estimate whether physical capacity is truly constrained.
Reusable reasoning moveInstrument the bottleneck before expanding it. Reservations are a proxy, not the resource itself.