You are the project manager of the NQQ project. You are working with your project team to create
the activity duration estimates for the project. For each reported activity duration, your project team
offers you an addition of five percent extra time for risks, errors, or aggressive estimating. What
does Parkinson’s Law state about this scenario?

A.
Work expands to fulfill the amount of time allotted to it.

B.
Risks will be allowed into activities in which management creates risk provisions.

C.
Laborers will create errors when time has been allotted for errors to exist.

D.
Errors will be allowed into assignments when management creates error opportunity.

Explanation:
Parkinson’s Law states that the work will expand to fulfill the time allotted to it. When you allow five
percent additional time per activity the work will expand to consume the additional time that has
been allotted to the project task. In other words, activities will not be completed early even if there
are no errors or risks.
Answer options B, D, and C are incorrect. These are not the valid definitions of Parkinson’s Law.