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Basis of Estimating Software Development

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The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. Here are some resources that will provide guidance to produce credible software development estimates, in both traditional and agile domains. Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products , Jim Highsmith, Addison Wesley, 2004.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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Take for example the deployment of an ERP system, the installation, and startup of a process control system, the release of a suite of embedded software controllers for a car, aircraft, petrochemical plant. A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project. Now To Risk Management.

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Risk Management Resources

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Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. reducible and irreducible ?

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In-Depth: Stable Or Fluid Teams? What Does The Science Say?

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This concern is also present in academic literature, where authors like Mathieu and his colleagues (2008) and Mortensen and Haas (2018) point out that there is a research gap because studies are often based on stable teams, whereas this is often not the case in the modern workplace. Information and Software Technology , 48 (4), 235–244.

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The Agile Cannon

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Loss of control creates risk of failure. Quest for control (in manufacturing sense) makes innovation harder [2]. Innovation causes variability. Compensate for cost variation by including risk reduction metrics. Proactively Experiment to Improve. Not improving fast enough. Forces on proactive improvement.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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“Believing is Seeing: Confirmation Bias Studies in Software Engineering, “Magne Jørgensen and Efi Papatheocharous, 41st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA). The Use of Precision of Software Development Effort Estimates to Communicate Uncertainty,” Magne Jørgensen, Software Quality Days.