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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.

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Waterfall Should Have Never Existed: Part 1

MPUG

The latter, Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) came from the Rapid Application Development movement. These associations and thought leaders, authors, and researchers developed several flavors of Agile: Scrum, Scrum XP (eXtreme Programming), ScrumBan, DSDM, DevOps, and Lean-Agile , and market them vigorously.

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What We’re Reading This Week: The Fascination of Automation + AI

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It’s about time to connect a few concepts that until recently been somewhat disconnected: automation and machine learning. Now comes the promise of connecting automation with machine learning—systems capable of learning without the need to be constantly programed—and it’s fascinating. Automation isn’t new.