Agreed that this was my biggest disagreement with the article as well. You describe the solution to "falling behind" as giving the team a few days to decompress. I would create that decompression in a different way - by setting and sticking to priorities.
Ultimately, if you're falling behind, there's not enough capacity in the system, and so some things won't get done. Better to make that judgment explictly by setting priorities, rather than having it happen ad hoc.
Ultimately, if you're falling behind, there's not enough capacity in the system, and so some things won't get done. Better to make that judgment explictly by setting priorities, rather than having it happen ad hoc.