{"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":"<p>In 1906, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pareto_principle\">80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/articles\/fog0000000020.html\">80% of the people use 20% of a given software&#8217;s features<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.8020salesperformance.com\/\">80% of sales is generated by 20% of your salespeople<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yuiblog.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/28\/performance-research-part-1\/\">80% of computer processing time is spent running 20% of a program&#8217;s code<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-opportunities.biz\/2007\/08\/15\/80-of-your-business-should-come-from-20-of-your-customers\/\">80% of your business should come from 20% of your customers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mauricebroaddus.com\/2007\/05\/earn-right-to-complain\">80% of the work is done by 20% of the people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crapart.spacebar.org\/\">80% of the quality comes from 20% of the effort<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.louisrosenfeld.com\/home\/bloug_archive\/000122.html\">80% of users&#8217; information needs are served by 20% of a website&#8217;s content<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isixsigma.com\/library\/content\/c010527d.asp\">80% of delays in schedule arise from 20% of the possible causes of the delays<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flatstats.co.uk\/articles\/turf\/80_20_rule.html\">80% of horse races are won by 20% of the jockeys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaushik.net\/avinash\/2007\/04\/how-should-web-analysts-spend-their-day.html\">Web analysts should spend 80% of their time doing analysis and only 20% reporting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ideally, <a href=\"http:\/\/lowfierce.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/importance-of-first-levels-and-8020.html\">80% of what a videogame is about is shown in the first level<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skinnydailypost.com\/archives\/2005_03_22_skinnydaily_archive.html\">Eat until you are 80% full and 20% empty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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":"<p>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&#8217;s features. 80% of sales is generated by 20% of your salespeople. 80% of computer processing time is spent running 20% of a program&#8217;s code. 80% of your business should come &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1081\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When All You Have is the Pareto Principle<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}