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Associate adages with their definition, can you make it? from "PMO_Setup_Chapter_11"

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Taking from the "MODULE: PMO Mission, Goals, and Objectives: Business Driven vs. Theory Driven PMOs" of PMUniversity.

1. Murphy’s Law:
2. Parkinson’s Law:
3. Student Syndrome:
4. Entropy:
5. Game Theory:
6. Pyrrhic Victory:
7. Winner’s Curse:
8. Mexican Stand-off:
9. Pavlov’s Law:
10. The Peter Principle:
11. Peter’s Corollary:
12. The Dilbert Principle:
13. Goodhart’s Law:
14. Pareto Principle (the 80/20 rule):
15. Hanlon’s Razor:

a) Never attribute to intentional malice that which can be explained by sheer stupidity
b) Multiple opponents with weapons aimed at each other will not fire the first shot
c) If anything can go wrong, it will
d) An individual’s success in making choices depends on the choices of others (i.e., Nash Equilibrium, Prisoner’s Dilemma)
e) Work will expand to fill the time available for its completion
f) When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure
g) A victory with a devastating and perilous cost to the victor
h) People will only start to fully apply themselves to a task just before its deadline
i) It is a natural tendency to move from order to disorder
j) In an auction, the winner will tend to overpay
k) 80 percent of the effects come from 20 percent of the causes
l) Repetitive event conditioning can trigger automatic prevent responses
m) In a hierarchical organization, employees will tend to rise to their own level of incompetence
n) Ineffective workers are moved to the place where they can do the least amount of damage
o) In time, every position tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to do the job


Posted on: July 22, 2016 07:25 AM | Permalink

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George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
Let's go over one by one...

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George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
Murphy’s Law

Please comment on how you've relate Murphy’s Law to your real life project...
Why is it so worldly known, it has to have a good use?
Please comment on how you've applied this concept to Project Management.




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George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
Taken from http://www.1000advices.com/guru/project_mgmt_murphy_law.html


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George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
Murphy's Law in Project Management

Murphy's Law mentions "What can go wrong will go wrong".

If the project has started without a proper project plan, it is going to be failed.

If the project sponsor is half hearted with the project, the chance of project success is low.

If the project manager lacks the competencies, the whole project team suffers.

We have to ensure right from the beginning, the project is a right project and we should execute it in the right way. Thus, ensuring the product or service makes business sense and with the strong management support are critical. Next is to have a competent project manager with the right project management methods to deliver the project.

Entire Comment taken from Murphy's Law in Project Management - ResearchGate. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Murphys_Law_in_Project_Management[accessed Jul 28, 2016].

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George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
People will only start to fully apply themselves to a task just before its deadline.

Student Syndrome in Project Management: What have been your experiences when dealing with this Issue and how have you manage it in your projects?

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Wade Harshman Scrum Master| GDIT Indianapolis, In, United States
George, thanks for the exercise. I had fun trying to finish the associations after matching the adages that I knew.

For a lot of us project managers, Hofstadter's Law is another good one to know.

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George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
Wade, sure... Any time...

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