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by 0xEF on Thursday June 20, 2024 @05:02AM
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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.
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The 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)