Comments on: 80% of what? http://blog.criticalresults.com/2010/01/20/eighty-twenty/ get software done faster, sharpen your team, gain balance and control... and make your project NOT SUCK Tue, 07 Jun 2011 02:37:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Three Keys to Your Software Project http://blog.criticalresults.com/2010/01/20/eighty-twenty/#comment-191 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:50:37 +0000 http://blog.criticalresults.com/?p=174#comment-191 [...] close to it, just skip it. Or cut back on the costs somehow. This is where sharp application of the 80/20 Rule comes in very [...]

]]> By: Josh Walsh http://blog.criticalresults.com/2010/01/20/eighty-twenty/#comment-167 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:41:05 +0000 http://blog.criticalresults.com/?p=174#comment-167 You are absolutely correct. 80% and 20% is not a hard statistic, it’s a communication tool to demonstrate just how much work we put into things which yield little or no value. Of course I don’t literally mean to scope out a project and do only the most important 20%. Rather, I suggest you find the critical features which yield the most value, and start there.

Sometimes this yields a weird development path. A road you never would have thought to travel otherwise. So be it.

Sometimes your biggest successes come from leaving out the features you didn’t desperately need.

]]> By: Tweets that mention 80% of what? « Critical Results -- Topsy.com http://blog.criticalresults.com/2010/01/20/eighty-twenty/#comment-166 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:53:09 +0000 http://blog.criticalresults.com/?p=174#comment-166 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Mark W. Schumann, Mark W. Schumann. Mark W. Schumann said: Freshly blogged: Applying the 80/20 rule to s/w dev… 80% of *what*? http://bit.ly/71j5tX [...]

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