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as they say: if you finished 90% of the project, you are halfway done.
by zalew 14y ago
as they say: if you finished 90% of the project, you are halfway done.
- smoyer 14y agoYou beat me to it ... but I've found that it's really more dependent upon how accurate my idea of "done" is. The more time I put into making an accurate list of the tasks that have to be completed to call it done, the more accurate my assessment of the 90% point is. What happens when you haven't thought your task list through is that you tend to add items that required to support the MVP's feature list. I actually find it pretty easy to avoid the features that I've decided have to wait for a later version.
- DanWaterworth 14y agoDoes it follow that if you are 99% of the way through, ie you've done 90% of the last 10%, you are 75% done?
- lloeki 14y agoAlmost: the first 90% of the project takes about 90% of the total time, while the last 10% usually take the other 90% of the total time.
- neogodless 14y agoMaybe I was just being arrogant! I left a company feeling like I was 90% through a project after working on it for 3 months. The company released the finished project over 3 months later, and I wondered what took so long. I said "I knew that the developer they put on the project was really slow!" But maybe I was just being arrogant.