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Time predictions : understanding and avoiding unrealism in project planning and everyday life

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Predicting the time needed to complete a project, task or daily activity can be difficult and people frequently underestimate how long an activity will take. This book sheds light on why and when this happens, what we should do to avoid it and how to give more realistic time predictions. It describes methods for predicting time usage in situations with high uncertainty, explains why two plus two is usually more than four in time prediction contexts, reports on research on time prediction biases, and summarizes the evidence in support of different time prediction methods and principles. Based on a comprehensive review of the research, it is the first book summarizing what we know about judgment-based time predictions.

Large parts of the book are directed toward people wishing to achieve better time predictions in their professional life, such as project managers, graphic designers, architects, engineers, film producers, consultants, software developers, or anyone else in need of realistic time usage predictions. It is also of benefit to those with a general interest in judgment and decision-making or those who want to improve their ability to predict and plan ahead in daily life.

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658.404 HAL t

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer Open., 2018

Collation

xii, 110p. : ill.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783319749532

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658.404

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Subject(s)

Personnel management
Economics
Management information systems
Project management
Economics--Psychological aspects
Time management

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Statement of Responsibility

by Torleif Halkjelsvik and Magne Jørgensen

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