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Re:Stopping at 90% by Nition on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @06:53AM (#36969213)
From the title I thought this article was going to be advocating for stopping at 90%. I was thinking to myself that makes pretty good sense, I could get through twice the amount of projects .
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Re:Stopping at 90% by SoftTalker on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @09:53AM (#36970934)
Agree. If projects regularly achieved 90% of what they set out to achieve, that would be fantastic. My experience is that 40% is more typical, for the ones that aren't canceled before they deliver anything.
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Re:Stopping at 90% by skeeter2020 on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @10:01AM (#36971033)
worse, it's not a cohesive 40%, but a long tail percentage complete of numerous features: 90% of feature A, 67% of B, 1-30% of countless more...
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