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A Little Queue Theory.

The article looks at workload and project management, focusing on software development projects. The author criticizes the tendency of project managers to create long task lists for each project participant and to schedule a very high percentage of each one's time. Drawing on queue theory, he sugges...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 58; no. 1; pp. 38 - 40
Autor principal: Armour, Phillip G.
Formato: Opinion
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Jan2015
Materias:
Project management
Computer software development
Queuing theory
Scheduling
Tasks
Work design
Workflow
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
Sumario:The article looks at workload and project management, focusing on software development projects. The author criticizes the tendency of project managers to create long task lists for each project participant and to schedule a very high percentage of each one's time. Drawing on queue theory, he suggests doing so can actually result in problems that make software development projects take longer to complete.