Estimate Governance Manufacturing Software Engineering 
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AUGUST 27, 2017
There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.
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OCTOBER 5, 2018
The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ? 10 Deadly Sins of Software Estimation , Steve McConnell , Construx, 2002. Steve McConnell.
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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
"Iterative Enhancement: A Practical Technique for Software Development," Victor Basil and Albert Turner, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Real-Time Software Engineering in Ada: Observations and Guidelines," Mark Borger, Mark, Klein, and Robert Veltre, technical Report, CMU/SEI-89-TR-022 , September 1989. .
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JULY 29, 2017
This is called Software Engineering Economics. Architecture -Center ERP Systems in the Manufacturing Domain. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. Estimating Processes in Support of Economic Analysis. Estimating and Making Decisions in Presence of Uncertainty.
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JUNE 4, 2016
This is used in support of the fallacy that estimates aren't needed to make decisions in the presence of uncertanty. Architecture -Center ERP Systems in the Manufacturing Domain. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. Software Engineering is a Verb. Who's Budget is it Anyway?
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MAY 11, 2017
I started my career as a Software Engineer , writing Fortran 77 signal processing algorithms to find and track missile launchers in the middle eastern desert. Software-intensive systems include: . Our daily lives depend on complex software-intensive systems, from banking to communications to transportation to medicine.
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FEBRUARY 9, 2018
I've seen estimates abused by bad managers, so let's NOT estimate and that will fix the behavior of Bad Managers." While the human behaviors are real and observable, conjecturing that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the outcome of those decisions, there is no principle to support that conjecture.
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