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In-Depth: How Easily Biases Distort What We Believe (In The Workplace)

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It happens, for example, when we don’t trust a certain person or group of people, and then only see behavior that fits with our belief (or even interpret it as such) without considering observations where they don’t (Oswald & Grosjean, 2004). When teams estimate work, hearing an initial estimate is likely to “anchor” further estimates.

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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. COSMIC Software Estimation Approach,” Alain Abran, ICEAA Workshop, Portland Oregon, June 6?9, Estimating Probable System Cost,” Stephen A. 61, September 2004.

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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. So when you hear we can't estimate you'll know better.

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Thinking By Sprinting: What Cognitive Science Tells Us About Why Scrum Works

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‘Knowledge work’ refers to tasks that take place mostly in our minds, like predicting scope, setting up plannings, considering consequences of changes to complex systems, working out test cases and estimating complexity. This will affect all estimates and predictions. This will affect all estimates and predictions.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

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Managment Processes. Making the Impossible Possible: Applying Heliotropic Abundance for creating Program and Project Management Processes. An Introduction to IMP/IMS , 17 Oct 2004. Product & Process Development Kaizen , LPPDE, Denver, Colorado, April 21-23, 2008. How to Develop Credible Cost & Schedule Estimate.

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Risk Management Resources

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requires making estimates) ? Project Risk Management: A Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Tree Approach,” Prasanta Kumar Dey, Cost Engineering , Vol. 920, November 2004. 3 September 2004, Heiot Watt University, Association of Researchers in Construction Management , Vol. reducible and irreducible ?

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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requires making estimates) ? Project Risk Management: A Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Tree Approach,” Prasanta Kumar Dey, Cost Engineering , Vol. 920, November 2004. 3 September 2004, Heiot Watt University, Association of Researchers in Construction Management , Vol. reducible and irreducible ?