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Build Awesome: RoR Devs Wanted

LiquidPlanner

In 2006 I left a great gig at Expedia to start LiquidPlanner with a fellow Expedia colleague, Charles Seybold. We didn’t really realize it at the time, but we built and launched the company using many of the concepts that Eric Ries later elegantly defined in his 2008 book The Lean Startup. Humble Beginnings.

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Reading List for the Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

The Cone of Uncertainty is a useful approach to defining the expected range of uncertainty at specific stages in a project. The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ?

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

México, 1 al 3 de Febrero de 2006. Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. Pich, Working Paper, 21/2006, Cambridge University, Judge Business School. “A De Meyer, C.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

México, 1 al 3 de Febrero de 2006. Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. Pich, Working Paper, 21/2006, Cambridge University, Judge Business School. “A De Meyer, C.

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Resources for Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

First, the Cone of Uncertainty is a Principle used to define the needed reduction in the variances of estimates on Programs. In “Schedule Estimation and Uncertainty Surrounding the Cone of Uncertainty” (May/June 2006), (the author) expresses some concern about whether uncertainty really does decrease over time. This letter states.

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Cinq

Herding Cats

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Here's another example of the Cone of Uncertainty, in this case, the uncertainty is the temperature of an oven being designed by an engineering team. The UCL and LCL are defined BEFORE the project starts. Software Engineering Economics”. Air Force. [4]

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Cone of Uncertainty - Part Trois

Herding Cats

Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. Here's another example of the Cone of Uncertainty, in this case, the uncertainty is the temperature of an oven being designed by an engineering team. The UCL and LCL are defined BEFORE the project starts. Software Engineering Economics”. Air Force. [4]