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Parkinson's Law: It's Real, So Use It
Parkinson's Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. It is the magic of the imminent deadline. If I give you 24 hours to complete a project, the time pressure forces you to focus on execution, and you have no choice but to do only the bare essentials. If I give... See more
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” Since then, Parkinson’s law has become the best-known explanation for why we can take three months to write a twenty-page essay or miraculously finish it in just one day. The problem with Parkinson’s law is that most of the time it works against us. Giving yourself three months to
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Fantastic advice, for software builders:
Headline driven development
Here is a simple process for shipping software projects that works. First, decompose the project into a stream1 of headlines. Then pick an aggressive date to ship the first headline and work like hell to meet that date. Have everyone work only on one headline at a time– the upcomi
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