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Parkinson's law dictates that

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

A generalization of the law is that the demand for a resource tends to expand to match the supply of the resource.

A corollary that I call "Reverse Parkinson's law":

Time available for completion compresses work

This is somewhat the principle behind [[Pomodoro]] and doing shorter Meetings

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This sets an important limit to the effectiveness of Timeboxing

This is a problem of Scrum