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How To Base Your Beliefs About Agile On Evidence

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Some of the references in the paper “The impact of inadequate customer collaboration on self-organizing teams” by Hoda, Noble & Marshall (2011). What distinguishes academic journals from regular magazines is that each submitted paper goes through a lengthy peer-review process. ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing ”).

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Software Estimating Resources

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“Effort Estimation of Use Cases for Incremental Large-Scale Software Development,” Pareastoo Mohagheghi, Bente Anda, and Reidat Conradi, Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B. 9, Issue 3, No.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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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 ‒ Steve McConnell. Software quality measurement,” Magne Jørgensen, Advances in Engineering Software 30 (1999) 907–912.