The Procrastinator’s Productivity Curve
This graph, drawn by “trig1″ in the Crappy Graphs user submission section, expressed what many programmers and students know to be true. The productivity spike at the beginning of a project depends on how exciting or interesting the project is. After a week or a month, that excitement fades and the true procrastinator in all of us comes out to play. The work has to be done, so we end up overextending ourselves right before the deadline.
December 8th, 2007 at 1:38 am
Totally true.
Here’s my addendum that proves that while procrasination persists, heavy workload is still consistent.
http://crappygraphs.com/user_graphs/?id=1155
December 25th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
There’s a problem in the graph, the part which goes down in the beginning means you have destroyed all the work you’ve just made… shouldn’t the graph just grow, be straight and the grow again in the end?
December 25th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Not necessarily, Karl. It could probably be worded better (like “Productivity”) but you could look at it as the amount of work done in a day, or percentage of total work on the project.