Pareto was right. 20% of your software is causing 80% of your problems

Even if you’ve never heard of Vilfredo Pareto (1848 – 1923), you’ll know his principle as the “80/20 rule”. He was an economist, but his principle has been used to describe phenomena as diverse as earthquakes to work health and safety. Famously, Microsoft supposedly adopted a policy of solving only 20% of bugs to reduce […]