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On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 19:06, Robert Koberg wrote: > Eric van der Vlist wrote: > > > I don't know (I have never been good at making money), but I don't see > > how that relates to the mis-usage of the 80/20 to accept or reject > > technical feature requests without any cost and market analysis. > > Well, the 80/20 rule, while originally thought up by an Italian > economists who discovered 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of > the people, has been applied to many other things. In the situation we > are discussing (?), it is simply that by covering 80% of the some thing > you get to the place you want. By trying to cover more, you usually > don't get there. But that Italian economist had some measurement to build his theory on. My point was that in most of the cases where I see the 80/20 rule used, especially when writing specifications, there is no such measurement and the 80/20 is just an excuse to refuse features. Eric -- Rendez-vous à .doc 2004. http://www.lra.fr/docarchi/html/sem_congr.html Upcoming XML schema languages tutorial: - Santa Clara -half day- (15/03/2004) http://masl.to/?J24916E96 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist http://xmlfr.org http://dyomedea.com (ISO) RELAX NG ISBN:0-596-00421-4 http://oreilly.com/catalog/relax (W3C) XML Schema ISBN:0-596-00252-1 http://oreilly.com/catalog/xmlschema ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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