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Software Estimating Resources

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The contribution of mathematical modelling to the practice of project management,” Terry Williams, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, Volume 14, Issue 1, Jan. Benchmarking Effort Estimation Models Using Archetypal Analysis,” Nikolaos Mittas, Vagia Karpenisi, and Lefteris Angelis, ACM PROMIS ’14, September 17, 2014. 5, October 2013.

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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. 400-407, 2009.

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Monte Carlo Simulation

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This is a Closed Loop Control Systems for managing the performance of a Software Intensive System of Systems, all developed using Scrum. 5] "Monte Carlo Methods for Absolute Beginners," Christophe Andrieu, Advanced Lectures on Machine Learning, 2003. [6] Monte Carlo Simulation tools are the heart of this work.