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Software Cost Accounting

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planning, evaluating alternatives, conceptual formation); 2) application development (i.e. The capitalization of costs should start after the preliminary project phase, and is contingent on management committing to funding the continued development of the software, and the completion of the project being probable.

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Waterfall Should Have Never Existed: Part 1

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I’d like to begin by sharing a brilliant quote that puts the latest project management fashion, Agile, into humbling perspective: “ A Waterfall project is just an Agile (Scrum) project with one huge sprint! The latter, Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) came from the Rapid Application Development movement.

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Webinar Recap: Agile Series Part 1 – Understanding & Incorporating Agile Project Management

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But you’ve probably seen this in your career where you have people jumping around going, “Oh, hey, here’s the next silver bullet,” or, “We are going to turn into a scrum or an agile shop.” And so what we’re trying to do is make sure that we have the ability to adapt and produce something.

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Software Estimating Resources

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15, The Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India, 2010. A Survey of Bayesian Net Models for Software Development Effort Prediction,” Lukasz Radlinski, International Journal of Software Engineering and Computing, Vol. December 2010. 4, November 2010. Can Functional Size Measures Improve Effort Estimation in SCRUM?”