4 ms·
Can you elaborate? I am curious. In my line of work, the 80/20 rule is often throw about, that being "to do 80% of the work, you only need 20% of the knowledge.
by 0xEF 2y ago
Can you elaborate? I am curious. In my line of work, the 80/20 rule is often throw about, that being "to do 80% of the work, you only need 20% of the knowledge." I thought the other reply was talking about the same diminutive axiom, but now I am not sure.
- com 2y agoThe sibling post gives a good account of the 90:90 challenge. The last part of any semi-difficult project nearly always takes much longer than the officially difficult “main problem” to solve. It leads to the last 10% of the deliverables costing at least 90% of the total effort for the project (not the planned amount; the total ad calculated after completion, if that ever occurs) This seems to endlessly surprise people in tech, but also many other semi-professional project domains (home renovations are a classic)