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		<title>Podcast episode 047:  schedule killers &#8211; bad multitasking</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Holohan, MBA PMP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subscribe to the comments for this post? Tweet This! Share this on Facebook Share this on LinkedIn Post on Google Buzz Email this via Gmail Add this to Google Reader Email this via Yahoo! Mail Get the pm411.org Project Management Podcast Newsletter delivered by email for free! &#8211; Your email address and personal information are confidential and will never be sold or rented. Today we continue our series on Schedule Killers – those tendencies and traits of project teams that cause us to miss our deadlines!  In Episode 045, we discussed “The Student Syndrome,” which is defined as “the phenomenon that many people will start to fully apply themselves to a task just at the last possible moment before a deadline.”   In Episode 046, we discussed “Parkinson’s Law,” which is defined as “the demand upon a resource tends to expand to match the supply of the resource.”  Today we talk about “Bad Multitasking.” What is Bad Multitasking? Bad Multitasking is also often expressed as “when resources constantly switch focus between critical path tasks on multiple projects AND someone is waiting for the output of their task before they can do their work.” Unfortunately our brains are not wired to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast episode 046:  schedule killers &#8211; parkinson&#8217;s law</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ron Holohan, MBA PMP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subscribe to the comments for this post? Tweet This! Share this on Facebook Share this on LinkedIn Post on Google Buzz Email this via Gmail Add this to Google Reader Email this via Yahoo! Mail Get the pm411.org Project Management Podcast Newsletter delivered by email for free! &#8211; Your email address and personal information are confidential and will never be sold or rented. Today we continue our series on Schedule Killers – those tendencies and traits of project teams that cause us to miss our deadlines!  Last episode we discussed “The Student Syndrome,” which is defined as “the phenomenon that many people will start to fully apply themselves to a task just at the last possible moment before a deadline.”   Today we talk about “Parkinson’s Law.” What is Parkinson’s Law? Parkinson’s Law, as it is known today, started as the first sentence of an essay that Cyril Northcote Parkinson wrote for The Economist in 1955.  Parkinson was a British naval historian, public administration scholar, and author of over sixty books.  Parkinson’s claim that “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion” later was expanded to include how work expands in bureaucracies in his bestselling 1957 book, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast episode 045:  schedule killers &#8211; student syndrome</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Holohan, MBA PMP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we will be starting a series on Schedule Killers – those tendencies and traits of project teams that cause us to miss our deadlines!  And the first schedule serial killer of project teams that we will be discussing is called… “The Student Syndrome!”

In this episode we cover:

1.)  What is Student Syndrome?
2.)  What Causes Student Syndrome?
3.)  How to Cure it]]></description>
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		<title>Uncertainty in estimates of software projects, fort building, and anything including a toddler</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Holohan, MBA PMP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subscribe to the comments for this post? Tweet This! Share this on Facebook Share this on LinkedIn Post on Google Buzz Email this via Gmail Add this to Google Reader Email this via Yahoo! Mail Today&#8217;s guest poster is Dina Garfinkel, PMP, from Flightpath.com.  After earning a degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, Dina went on to build her eclectic resume with stints as an educational technologist, webmaster, Ford Motors analyst, and goalkeeper for the Jerusalem women&#8217;s soccer team. These days, when she&#8217;s not managing the United Jewish Communities account at Flightpath, she&#8217;s a youth group leader, novice tri-athlete, and mother of two future Mia Hamms. Early in a project, so many of the specific details of the nature of the software being built, specific requirements, project plan and staffing details are all very unclear. Because there are so many variables early on in the project, it is crucial to include a large degree of uncertainty or variability in the project estimate. This is not about being purposely misleading or avoiding commitment to an exact number with your stakeholders, this is about accepting the reality of software projects that leave so much to be defined early on. To [...]]]></description>
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