Jim is the project manager for his project.

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Product: PMI-SP
Update on: Jul 25, 2025
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Jim is the project manager for his project. He and his project team are creating their duration estimates for the work packages in the WBS. For each activity, Jim is adding a few hours to the duration estimate in case something goes wrong during the completion of the work activity. Sarah, the project sponsor, does not approve of this and warns Jim of Parkinson's Law. What is Parkinson's Law?

People will behave based on what their behavior brings them.

As employees do repetitive tasks, duration should decrease.

Work expands to fill the amount of time allotted to it.

An exponential increase labor does not correlate to an exponential decrease in duration.