Saturday, November 10, 2018
Parkinson observation
The most famous Parkinson's Law is Work expands to fill the available time.
Unquestionably true, but I'd narrow it down to Work expands to fit the established routine.
Example: The latest courseware project effectively ended in early August, with a sparse QA finale that dragged on till the end of Oct. The QA kept me in work mode, always checking the inbox, but there was very little actual work during those months. I started the Box Depots Poser project to stay busy during that time.
I use the EXCELLENT Microsoft tool SyncToy to back up daily output to USB every day. The selected backups include both paid courseware and unpaid graphics output. SyncToy gives a detailed report of each backup.
During the year of full-time courseware, with no 'hobby' work at all, the backup pretty consistently handled 50 files per day, generally 30 new and 20 revised. After August, with all the work going into unpaid 'hobby' graphics, the backup pretty consistently handles 50 files per day, generally 30 new and 20 revised.
That's an established routine! No matter what kind of software work it is, I always handle 50 files per day.
Labels: constants and constants
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