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Waterfall Should Have Never Existed: Part 1

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I’d like to begin by sharing a brilliant quote that puts the latest project management fashion, Agile, into humbling perspective: “ A Waterfall project is just an Agile (Scrum) project with one huge sprint! In 2001, a group of software thought-leaders got together and hammered out the Agile Manifesto.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . Here's some materials that provide the tools and processes needed to learn how to estimate. Andreou, 3rd Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Software Engineering Workshop , 7 October, 2010, Larnaca, Cyprus. 1, January 2001.

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Software Estimating Resources

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Bool, CrossLink: The Aerospace Corporation, Winter, 2000/2001, pp. Benchmarking Effort Estimation Models Using Archetypal Analysis,” Nikolaos Mittas, Vagia Karpenisi, and Lefteris Angelis, ACM PROMIS ’14, September 17, 2014. Rizwan Jameel Qureshi, International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing, Vol. 29, 2001. “A