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Organization
Parkinson's Law
Work Expands to Fill Time.
The article
If
"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." Give a task a week and it takes a week; the same task with a two-day deadline ships in two days. Slack is consumed, not banked.
Then
“Set deliberately short timeboxes for open-ended work and review at the deadline. A tight box forces the scoping decisions an open one defers forever.”
Unless
Timeboxing
Source
C. Northcote Parkinson, Parkinson's Law (The Economist, 19 November 1955); expanded into Parkinson's Law and Other Studies in Administration (Houghton Mifflin, 1957).
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