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- From: mjs@hubcap.clemson.edu (M. J. Saltzman)
- Subject: Re: Will we keep ignoring this productivity issue?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.162754.11623@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Organization: Clemson University, Clemson SC
- References: <1992Nov11.055130@eklektix.com> <BxMuBK.ArM@inews.Intel.COM>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:27:54 GMT
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- In article <BxMuBK.ArM@inews.Intel.COM> nsridharan@faois.intel.com (Sridharan) writes:
- >
- >Try a hypothesis: What if .. just what if .. the famous 80-20 rules works.
- >Examples: 80 percent of the function comes from 20 percent of the code
- > 80 percent of the value comes from 20 percent of the effort
- > 80 percent of the result comes from 20 percent of the people (in a large
- >project)
- > and etc etc
- >[...]
- >
- >Comments?
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- Well for every aphorism, there is an equal and opposite counter-aphorism. 8^)
- I'm thinking of the famous 90-90 rule:
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- The first 90 percent of the project takes 90 percent of the time,
- and the last 10 percent of the project takes the other 90 percent
- of the time.
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- Matthew Saltzman
- Clemson University Math Sciences
- mjs@clemson.edu
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