Moving is to software engineering as ….

Why does the last 10% of moving take 90% of the time?

3 Comments

  1. Mark Lilback Said,

    July 26, 2004 @ 8:40 am

    Very true. I moved in May and still haven’t finished unpacking.

  2. Jon H Said,

    July 26, 2004 @ 2:01 pm

    You’re so right.

    The longest, hardest move in my life was when I was moving from one apartment building in Chicago to *the building next door*. Six floors down, 100 feet over, 7 floors up. At least there were elevators, but it still took about 12 hours.

    The big stuff was the easy part, and I had friends to help with that. Furniture, books, bookcases, computers - easy.

    But after the ‘hard stuff’ was done, I had to cart over all the little and oddly-shaped things that I figured I’d just toss in a laundry basket and take over.

    Those things seemed to multiply over the course of the day.

    Arrgh.

  3. Jiaqi Li Said,

    October 5, 2004 @ 2:31 pm

    It’s like the the 80/20 rule, 20% of customers take up 80% of the time.

    Except uh…with 90 and 10 instead of 80 and 20.

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