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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

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. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

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. Google will find these when there is no URL provided.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . This quote demonstrates a lack of understanding of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty and the processes and events that create uncertainty. All project work has uncertainty. All estimates have precision and accuracy.

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Timely vs Toggl: A Definitive Comparison [March 2024]

Teamweek

It’s a nice choice for anyone who has trouble consistently tracking their work time and wants to make the process seamless. It offers an Autotracker that allows users to automate the time tracking process and a Manual Timer for employees who prefer the classic method. You only need to accept them when you are done for the day.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

By the way, the pure conjecture that agile enables late changing requirements to not have a significant impact on the cost and schedule of the development project is completely lacking any testable evidence outside of personal anecdotes of agile advocates. Now To Risk Management. Epistemic uncertainty ? from the Greek ??????µ?

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Timely vs Toggl: A Definitive Comparison [March 2024]

Teamweek

It’s a nice choice for anyone who has trouble consistently tracking their work time and wants to make the process seamless. It offers an Autotracker that allows users to automate the time tracking process and a Manual Timer for employees who prefer the classic method. You only need to accept them when you are done for the day.

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Risk Management Resources

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Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. requires making estimates) ? A Risk Management Methodology for Project Risk Dependencies,” Tak Wah Kwan and Hareton K.N., Estimation of Long?Term reducible and irreducible ?