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Not at all, the application of Pareto here would be something like "80% of a developer's value is contributed in 20% of their time", that 20% being the time spe
by benplumley 4y ago
Not at all, the application of Pareto here would be something like "80% of a developer's value is contributed in 20% of their time", that 20% being the time spent in the flow state.
Edit: rereading, those are actually the same thing, though the quote is confusing because it refers to a different 20% than Pareto refers to.
- marcosdumay 4y ago> "80% of a developer's value is contributed in 20% of their time", that 20% being the time spent in the flow state. Hum, no. One does absolutely not follow from the other. If the Pareto principle actually applies, it would say that 80% of the development value comes from 20% of the time the developer spends in flow. And the rest 80% of the flow time adds only to 20% of the value. The same would come from the value from meetings and the time spent on them. But do keep in mind that, about the Pareto principle: you can never predict the value of anything - those are only post-fact measurements; and those proportions vary widely, it's never actually 80-20.