 | Shriram Maheshwari - 2002 - 572 pages
...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... | |
 | Barbara J. Streibel - 2002 - 203 pages
...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... | |
 | Craig Larman - 2002 - 694 pages
...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.... | |
 | Allen C. Bluedorn - 2002 - 396 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles R. McConnell - 2003 - 498 pages
..."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... | |
 | Harold L. Wilensky - 2002 - 932 pages
...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... | |
 | Scott Mueller - 2003 - 1656 pages
...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... | |
 | 布卢姆斯伯里出版公司 - 2003 - 2176 pages
...• 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... | |
 | Tom Kendrick - 2003 - 380 pages
...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... | |
 | David A. Karp - 2003 - 596 pages
...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... | |
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WORK EXPANDS so as to fill the time available for its completion. 
