{"id":1081,"date":"2007-09-13T15:48:32","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T20:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2007\/09\/13\/when-all-you-have-is-the-pareto-principle\/"},"modified":"2007-09-13T15:48:32","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T20:48:32","slug":"when-all-you-have-is-the-pareto-principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1081","title":{"rendered":"When All You Have is the Pareto Principle"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1906, 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population<\/a>.<\/p>\n

80% of the people use 20% of a given software’s features<\/a>.<\/p>\n

80% of sales is generated by 20% of your salespeople<\/a>.<\/p>\n

80% of computer processing time is spent running 20% of a program’s code<\/a>.<\/p>\n

80% of your business should come from 20% of your customers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

80% of the work is done by 20% of the people<\/a>.<\/p>\n

80% of the quality comes from 20% of the effort<\/a>.<\/p>\n

80% of users’ information needs are served by 20% of a website’s content<\/a>.<\/p>\n

80% of delays in schedule arise from 20% of the possible causes of the delays<\/a>.<\/p>\n

80% of horse races are won by 20% of the jockeys<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Web analysts should spend 80% of their time doing analysis and only 20% reporting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ideally, 80% of what a videogame is about is shown in the first level<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Eat until you are 80% full and 20% empty<\/a>.<\/p>\n

20% of the references to Pareto Principle will incorrectly apply it in situations where there is not a corresponding 80% input or output, as shown in the last three examples above. Considering the previous sentence to be an application of the Pareto Principle would be another example of that error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 1906, 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population. 80% of the people use 20% of a given software’s features. 80% of sales is generated by 20% of your salespeople. 80% of computer processing time is spent running 20% of a program’s code. 80% of your business should come … Continue reading When All You Have is the Pareto Principle<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t