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Idea

Timeboxing consists in fixing a maximum time for a certain piece of work to be done, ensuring that the cost alloted for the work does not drift, therefore leaving quality/scope as the only variable. It requires scope-control^[2] to work. It sometimes backfire because of Parkinson's law^[1].

References

Links

• [1]: Timeboxing is leveraging or protecting against Parkinson's law

• [2]: Scope Control - When timing is fixed then controlling scope is the variable remaining.

• Timeboxing is a Mechanism.