What is Parkinson‘s Law  | Parkinson’s Law | Expansion of work to fill the time available| Why does Parkinson’s Law happen | Roles and responsibilities of Parkinson’s Law | We use the DACI framework | How we overcome the Parkinson’s Law

What is Parkinson‘s Law

Parkinson’s Law

Statement: Work expends to fill the time assigned for its completion.

The term was first coined by Cyril Northolt Parkinson in a humorous easy he wrote for “The Economist” in 1955. He shares the story of a woman whose only task in a day is to send a postcard – a task which would take a busy person approximately three minutes. But woman spends an hour finding a card, another half hour  looking for her glasses, 90 minutes writing the card, 20 minutes deciding whether or not to take an umbrella along on her walk to the mailbox and on until her day is filled.

Expansion of work to fill the time available:

Sidewise from the work itself become increasingly complex, procrastination is another key player in Parkinson’s Law.

Let’s suppose that we have a set amount of time to do something often inspires us to leave work to the last vey minute and our delay in getting started mean the time required for that task expends.

Why does it happen?

It happen if you don’t follow your team management and your guider and if you don’t follow the you your project deadline that reasons it will happen. Second thing if you don’t pre planned about any your project and on the spot you try to complete the project in this way your task in not a complete and all wok will be wrong.

Vision statement:

Suppose you are asked to alphabetize a huge stack of files but you don’t know about the files and about the importance and why you are asked to perform this task. To start any group project you are supposed to made obvious to your group fellows

·         Importance of project:

·         Why this project makes sense for your group fellow and your organization

Roles and responsibilities:

For any project especially with a lot of different teams workers and team in the mix its crucial that you clearly outline where everybody fits.

We use the DACI framework:

D drives Driver:

The person responsible for corralling stakeholders this person getting a decision and collecting all necessary information and the decision made by the agreed date.

C drives contributors:

They have knowledge or expertise that may affect the decision.

I drives Informed:

They are informed of a final decision.

Using this framework to show team members how their role fits in helps to prevent buck passing they are forced to take more accountability for their assigned responsibilities and contributions.

How we overcome the Parkinson’s Law.

The best thing is to start early by planning a successful project. First of all plan your entire project and then implement all the things before the time in this way we save the time and before the time we complete our task.

Set your timeline:

It is interesting that the timeline is the last step of the project think about building of a house you would not reach a builder and say I need a house that in this size and looks exactly like this example and I need it by this date next task will be this you communicate with your builder about your expectations and work you require from your builder and then set the deadline.