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* Part I Utilizing human resources
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* [[Chapter 1 Trouble somewhere today]]
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* [[Chapter 2 Cheeseburger production and sales manual]]
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* [[Chapter 3 Vienna is waiting for you]]
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* [[Chapter 4 Quality first...if time permits]]
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* [[Chapter 5 Revision of Parkinson's Law]]
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* [[Chapter 6 Does cancer work well? "Laetrail"]]
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## Chapter 5 Revision of Parkinson's Law (pp.27-32)
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Parkinson's Law almost certainly doesn't apply to your people.
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- Parkinson's Law
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- Parkinson's Law: "Work expands to match the amount of time given"
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- It's not a scientific law, it's the irony that if you set a time, the work doesn't always finish by then
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- Managers who believe in Parkinson's Law believe that unreasonable deadlines are necessary for subordinates to complete their work.
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- Trying to build a good team and treating people like Parkinson's is counterproductive by demotivating programmers.
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- Experiment at the University of New South Wales
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- Investigate how productivity is affected by the way targets are set
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- Hypothesis: Developers (programmers) work hard to achieve their own goals
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- Result: As hypothesized (Table 5.1)
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- The System Analyst data in Table 5.2 do not follow the hypothesis because they are professionals who do not set false targets.
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- Table 5.3: Projects with the least amount of scheduling pressure from the boss showed the highest productivity
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- Managers who are always happier have their own problems
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Table 5.1 Differences in productivity by target setters (part of the results)
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| Target Setter | Average Productivity | Number of Projects |
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| Programmer | 8.0 | 19 |
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| Manager | 6.6 | 23 |
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| Programmers and Managers | 7.8 | 16 |
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Table 5.2 Differences in productivity by target setters (part of the results)
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| Target Setter | Average Productivity | Number of Projects |
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| Programmer | 8.0 | 19 |
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| Manager | 6.6 | 23 |
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| Programmers and Managers | 7.8 | 16 |
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| System Analyst | 9.5 | 21 |
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Table 5.3 Differences in productivity by target setters (part of the results)
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| Target Setter | Average Productivity | Number of Projects |
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| Programmer | 8.0 | 19 |
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| Manager | 6.6 | 23 |
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| Programmers and Managers | 7.8 | 16 |
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| System Analyst | 9.5 | 21 |
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| No target | 12.0 | 24 |
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- This is what happens when you rework Parkinson's Law (* Ironic)
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The company's routine work tends to swell up to the point where it's worth working hours.
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- This is the company's problem. It will be taken up again in Part II. |
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