...you sit. 7. Murphy's Law. If anything can go wrong, it will. Every solution breeds new problems. 8. Parkinson's Law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. 9. Peter's Principle: A person rises to the level of his incompetence. 10. Sod's Law. If somediing...

...end. Do you recognize the name Cyril Northcote Parkinson? Probably not, but you most likely know his law — "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." That's certainly true for meetings. Set a time for the meeting to end. but you should indicate a start...

...four motivations for timeboxing an iteration. First, Parkinson's law. Parkinson wryly observed that "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion" [Parkinson58] . Distant or fuzzy completion dates (for example, six months away), exacerbate this effect....

...proposed expansion of Parkinson's Law (1986, p. 97). (The original statement of Parkinson's Law was, "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion" [Parkinson 1957, p. 2].) The time available, the length of the work period, is also another example...

..."Parkinson's Law or the Rising Pyramid." The "law" itself is stated in the book's opening sentence: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. An edition in library binding was issued in 1996. An early mass-market paperback edition can still...

...hospitals, and corrections (Dye and McGuire, 1992, pp. 319-321, 325). 6. Parkinson (1957, p. 2) holds that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion" and adds two axioms: (i) "An official wants to multiply subordinates, not rivals" and (2) "Officials...

...published his famous compilation of essays titled Parkinson's Law, which begins with the statement, "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." A corollary of Parkinson's most famous "law" can be applied to hard drives: "Data expands so as to...

...• Maintain clear objectives on what you are trying to achieve and allocate your time accordingly. 'Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion/ (C. Northcote Parkinson) Delegate • Assess which tasks can be delegated to someone else. • Choose carefully whom you delegate...

...With the scope defined, the path forward became clear. CHAPTER 4 IDENTIFYING PROJECT SCHEDULE RISK "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. ' ' — C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON, Parkinson 's Law Although Parkinson's observation was not backed up with any empirical data, the truth...

...See Chapter 3 for details. Increasing Disk Space (or What to Throw Away) Parkinson's law states that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Along the same lines, it's safe to say that files will quickly expand to fill the amount of available...