Hearing the discussion at work, I thought I could easily summarize the meeting.  Grabbing the back of a file folder, I went to work on a visual.

“You see it’s like an iceberg.  You have the 10% of crucial project elements at the top.”

Nods of agreement around the table.

“Then you have 90% of the elements that make sense for project expansion.”

More nods.  Go Dave, you’ve got this!

“And at the bottom, you have 10% of the features that don’t fit into the project.”

Confused looks, as I summarized.

“And that gives us (pause) 110%.”

Oops.  You see the extra 10% is for you, because this has been such a great meeting.

Nice try Dave, but it certainly is a fine iceberg drawing.  No arguing with that point.