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Basis of Estimating Software Development

Herding Cats

The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. When it is suggested that estimating is hard, of no value, and unnecessary, always ask what principle is used to support that claim? Software Sizing and Estimating: Mk II FPA , Charles Symons, John Wiley & Sons, 1991. Don't hear one?

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EPM Spelled Out

MPUG

2004, Enterprise Project Management, p. Remember, there is no one-size-fits-all approach to EPM since it depends on your company’s processes and strategic goals. It involves implementing strategies and processes to streamline and improve the effectiveness of project management on a large scale. Ireland, L.,

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Managing Virtual Teams Successfully

The IIL Blog

First let’s keep the concept of ROI basic, which is in this context: Applying this equation to a real-life example, if the cost for rolling out a SMILE activity = $10,000 and the estimated value of the program is $100,000 (considering quantitative and/or qualitative factors such as listed above): This number is not exaggerated.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

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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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

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 Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

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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#NoEstimates Book Review - Part 1

Herding Cats

This graph is from old 2004 numbers. Many times the books uses 12, 16, even 25 year old reports as the basis of the suggestion that Not Estimating fixes the problems in the reports. Here's a few comments on the Standish reporting process. If the project was over budget, was the needed budget estimate correct?