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
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