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Software Cost Accounting

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planning, evaluating alternatives, conceptual formation); 2) application development (i.e. The capitalization of costs should start after the preliminary project phase, and is contingent on management committing to funding the continued development of the software, and the completion of the project being probable.

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Waterfall Should Have Never Existed: Part 1

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I’d like to begin by sharing a brilliant quote that puts the latest project management fashion, Agile, into humbling perspective: “ A Waterfall project is just an Agile (Scrum) project with one huge sprint! The latter, Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) came from the Rapid Application Development movement.

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Webinar Recap: Agile Series Part 1 – Understanding & Incorporating Agile Project Management

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But you’ve probably seen this in your career where you have people jumping around going, “Oh, hey, here’s the next silver bullet,” or, “We are going to turn into a scrum or an agile shop.” So individuals and interactions over processes and tools. There are a lot of different ways to approach this.

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Software Estimating Resources

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So start here to build your academic foundation, that can be put to work to build a foundation of validated experience of making estimates in the presence of uncertainty and protect yourself from fallacious claims that estimates are a waste, not needed, and produce bad resulting in the decision making process for those paying you to produce value.