Mihail thinks of himself as a Skills Swiss Army Knife and when asked about his approach to work usually tells people that he is “double damaged goods”:
– he is an Engineer, so he can’t think any other way but structurally and hierarchically – everything is connected to everything else and it’s clear which one is more important, and
– he is an MBA disciple, so everything can be thought of as, or converted to, a business.
Because of the above “damage”, he is constantly trying to “repair” things by think differently or, at least, connecting seemingly unconnected “stuff”. So if you can’t see the connections while reading these pages, don’t sweat it: you’re most like ok and not “damaged”… yet…
Regarding this site, the “use8020” thinking has been haunting him for few years now. It all started with the “… Pareto principle (also known as the 80–20 rule, the law of the vital few, and the principle of factor sparsity) [which] states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.” Check the Wikipedia link above and you’ll find a wealth of background info, heavy maths and many, many applications.
Being an Engineer and Manager, the pursuit of efficiency (how to do more with less) got him to try Agile Software Development. One of the main principles of Agile Software Development is to focus on the most Important part of the work first (’cause’) and quickly deliver it to the Customer in order to release the Value (‘effect’). So, according to the Pareto principle, delivering only 20% of a piece of software/application/product/service would produce 80% of the Value to the Customer. Simple… !
But few more questions kept popping up…
Use 8020! by Mihail Sestakov is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at use8020.com.