Herding Cats

DECEMBER 16, 2017

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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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

requires making estimates) ? Kadane, and Anthony O’Hagan, Carnegie Mellon University, Statistics & Data Science, January 5, 2005. Estimation of Long?Term Elsevier, 2005. Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ? reducible and irreducible ? Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

requires making estimates) ? Kadane, and Anthony O’Hagan, Carnegie Mellon University, Statistics & Data Science, January 5, 2005. Estimation of Long?Term Elsevier, 2005. Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ? reducible and irreducible ? Effective Risk Management 2nd Edition, Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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Teamweek

MARCH 3, 2020

A 2017 report by Global Workplace Analytics found that the remote workforce has increased by 115% since 2005. A 2018 study by the International Workplace Group estimated that 70% of office workers worldwide work from home “at some point of the week,” and that more than half do so for more than half of the week.

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MPUG

APRIL 20, 2020

Cohn (2005) describes a “relative weighting” technique for sequencing a product backlog, which is similar to what we describe here. Agile Estimating and Planning. The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development. In this scenario, the average feature flow time increased slightly to 8.2

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

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, Flint, School of Management, Working Paper Series, September 2005.”.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

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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