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Waterfall Should Have Never Existed: Part 1

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In 2001, a group of software thought-leaders got together and hammered out the Agile Manifesto. As far as I have observed, broadly confirmed by the 14 th ‘ Annual State of Agile ’ report from VersionOne: “ The survey results indicate that agility is largely confined to [software] development, IT, and operations. ” (page 4).

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Software Estimating Resources

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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

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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.