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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Scope creep is the more common term but you might hear both, especially if you are working in software development. Change control or change management is the process of managing unplanned but desired influences on the project. Example of scope creep in software development. What causes scope creep? Larson, R. &
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NOVEMBER 7, 2016
Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. When I left for the airport this morning to catch my flight to a customer site I estimated, given the conditions, how much time I need to get to my favorite parking spot at DIA. So when you hear we can't estimate you'll know better.
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MAY 7, 2019
This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp.
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MARCH 11, 2018
Making changes late in the development cycle has significant impacts on the verification and validation of the system no matter the software development method. . A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Now To Risk Management. It's as simple as that.
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MARCH 17, 2019
Deliverables Based Planning: Providing Actional Information to the Program Manager , 11th Annual Rocky Mountain Project Management Symposium, 2009. Increasing the Probability of Success , Dallas MPUG, May 6th, 2009. Product & Process Development Kaizen , LPPDE, Denver, Colorado, April 21-23, 2008. Agile Project Management.
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DECEMBER 28, 2017
Estimation is pretentious rationalism, where rationalism does not serve us well (extremistan)(sic) Take only risks you can survive. These estimates can not the ultimate truth since the underlying processes that create the uncertainties (aleatory and epistemic) are stochastic in nature - stationary or nonstationary. The Fallacy.
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OCTOBER 27, 2016
There are two kinds of uncertainty on all projects, no matter the domain, including software development projects. The alternatives can involve a large number of uncertainties about the factors that influence the ultimate outcomes. The Notion of Enterprise Software Development. Quote of the Day.
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