{"id":1254,"date":"2016-05-07T11:06:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T15:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2016-05-11T11:22:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T15:22:05","slug":"parkinsons-law-of-triviality-also-known-as-bikeshedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2016\/1254\/orts\/parkinsons-law-of-triviality-also-known-as-bikeshedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Parkinson&#8217;s Law of Triviality (also known as bikeshedding)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cyril Northcote Parkinson, a historian and author, formulated this observation about the human tendency to devote a great deal of time to unimportant details while crucial matters go unattended.<\/p>\n<p>Parkinson observed a citizen committee organized to approve plans for a nuclear power plant. He noted the group tendency to be silent when focused on technical matters such as the\u00a0design of the nuclear plant, but when it came to the design of the bike shed, everyone had an opinion. Because\u00a0people are often ill-equipped to consider complicated subjects, they tend to\u00a0focus on trivial matters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thus the act of wasting time on trivial details while important matters are inadequately attended is known as <i>bikeshedding<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Parkinson is also known for formulating another principle known as <a href=\"http:\/\/whatis.techtarget.com\/definition\/Parkinsons-Law\">Parkinson&#8217;s law <\/a>\u00a0&#8211; that work expands to use up the amount of time allocated for it<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyril Northcote Parkinson, a historian and author, formulated this observation about the human tendency to devote a great deal of time to unimportant details while crucial matters go unattended. Parkinson observed a citizen committee organized to approve plans for a nuclear power plant. He noted the group tendency to be silent when focused on technical <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2016\/1254\/orts\/parkinsons-law-of-triviality-also-known-as-bikeshedding\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orts","category-11-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1255,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}