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Why Johnny Can't Estimate? (Update)

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Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. There is a discussion of the conjecture that estimates are a waste, estimates can't be done, estimates are evil, estimates must be stopped immediately. Mine is in hard science and systems engineering. In all cases, we start our work with.

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What is a technical project manager? (And why you should think about becoming one)

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Technical project managers have a unique insight into how products get built that allows them to collaborate better with development teams, identify technical risks or inefficiencies, and make smarter decisions about how new features will work (or not) within your product roadmap. How software systems are architected.

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Why Johnny Can't Estimate?

Herding Cats

Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. Since all risk comes from uncertainty - reducible (Epistemic) and irreducible (Aleatory), estimating is a foundation of all we do. In our domain of engineered systems there is a broad range of problems, complex issues, approaches to solving problems.

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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

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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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Cone of Uncertainty - Revisited

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One chapter on the Principles of Risk Management and the second chapter on the Practices of Risk Management. Since reducible and irreducible uncertainties create risk, those uncertainties need to be reduced as the project proceeds for the probability of project success to increase. 37–48, 2007. 37–48, 2007.

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Real Options and Decision Making for ICT Projects

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Estimation locks down choices early through upfront t decision making, #NoEstimates preserves options. A real option is a choice made available with business investment opportunities, referred to as “real” because it typically references a tangible asset instead of a financial instrument. IT Risk Management.

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There is Little New Under the Sun

Herding Cats

It is popular to claim we've never done this before, so how can we possibly estimate the cost and schedule. If it truly hasn't been done before, then the software project is likely to be an inventing new physics project. In that world, we still made estimates of the cost to design, build, and operate the experiment.