How has Parkinson’s Law manifested in your projects?

Estimating Schedule Management

Eduard Hernandez

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Product Operations Program Manager Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain

Have you observed tasks expanding to fill the time allocated, and if so, how has it affected deadlines, resource allocation, or team productivity? What strategies have you used to mitigate this effect, and were they effective in improving efficiency?

Posted: Sep 13, 2024 8:48 AM

Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada

Absolutely - when individual activity estimates are padded, this is a very natural outcome. It is better to go with aggressive activity estimates and to pool uncertainty in buffers leading up to a milestone than it is to pad each activity separately.

Kiron

Posted: Sep 13, 2024 3:43 PM

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