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Basis of Estimating Software Development

Herding Cats

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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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. Risk Management is Project Management for Adults - Tim Lister.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

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. 5, September/October 2011.

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We are entering the Deployment Phase of the Digital Age

Scrum.org

Of course, this list changes with the markets, but if you compare that to 2011, the list is 60% different. Scrum, agile thinking, modern software development working practices are synonymous with Digital Technology and have evolved out of the fundamentally different characteristics of the opportunity presented by technology.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Uncertainty is related to three aspects of the management of projects: The external world - the activities of the project itself. The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. One starting point is the value at risk.

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Where Did All the Project Managers Go?

Leading Answers

Software is eating the world ” claimed venture capitalist, Marc Andreessen in his 2011, New York Times article. Seven years on, the trend continues, and project managers are also on the menu. The next generation of project managers face new challenges but also new opportunities as organizations undergo a major transformation.

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Software Estimating Resources

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The reason for this resource page is the lack of understanding of how to estimate, the urban myths about software estimating, and the fallacies that estimating is not needed, when developing software, in the presence of uncertainty, when spending other peoples money. Monte Carlo Schedule Risk Analysis,” Intaver Institute, Inc.