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It all started with the \u201c\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pareto_principle\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pareto principle<\/span><\/a> (also known as the 80\u201320 rule, the law of the vital few, and the principle of factor sparsity)\u00a0 [which] states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.\u201d \u00a0Check the Wikipedia link above and you\u2019ll find a wealth of background info, heavy maths and many, many applications.<\/p>\n<p>Being an Engineer and Manager, the pursuit of efficiency (how to do more with less) got him to try\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/agilemanifesto.org\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Agile Software Development<\/span><\/a>. \u00a0One of the main principles of Agile Software Development is to focus on the most Important\u00a0part of the work first (\u2019cause\u2019) and quickly deliver it to the Customer in order to release the Value (\u2018effect\u2019).\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Simple\u2026 !<\/p>\n<p>But few more questions kept popping up\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/4.0\/\" class=\"tile-inner gallS\" data-lightbox-gallery=\"gallerySa\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"137\" height=\"48\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28\" src=\"https:\/\/use8020.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CC.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nUse 8020! by <a href=\"https:\/\/use8020.com\/about\/use8020.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mihail Sestakov<\/span><\/a> is licensed under a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License<\/a><\/span>.<br \/>\nBased on a work at <a href=\"https:\/\/use8020.com\/about\/use8020.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">use8020.com<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About\u2026 Mihail\u00a0thinks of himself as a Skills Swiss Army Knife and when asked about his approach to work usually tells people that he is \u201cdouble damaged goods\u201d: \u2013 he is an Engineer, so he can\u2019t think any other way but structurally and hierarchically \u2013 everything is connected to everything else and it\u2019s clear which one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/use8020.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/use8020.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/use8020.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/use8020.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/use8020.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/use8020.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/use8020.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/use8020.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}