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APRIL 16, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management.

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

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JANUARY 23, 2019

This knowledge starts with Reference Class Forecasting which is a method of predicting the future (cost, schedule, technical performance) by looking at similar past situations and their outcomes. For technical design, there are existing designs, patterns, packages, architecture references, and similar resources. Almost impossible?

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FEBRUARY 9, 2019

40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things. A #Noestimates advocate makes the claim that having a ±10% accuracy for estimates of cost and duration is a dangerous thing. We develop these reference classes using Agile Function Points. Use these to develop a Systems Model of the products .

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Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 42

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AUGUST 22, 2018

These are classic examples from an author who is either unskilled, untrained, and inexperienced in estimating software development. Or who willfully ignores the knowledge and resources readily available in textbooks, papers, tools, and training for how to create credible estimates for software systems. By simply NOT Estimating?

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