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Software Cost Accounting

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There is a saying in the project management business that money comes in two colors - Green and Blue. Blue money, is referred to as budget. It is allocated funds to the budget for the project. But in the software development world, the domains of IT, there are two other colors of money. CAPEX and OPEX.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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Economics is a social science concerned chiefly with description and analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. If we look at the discipline of software engineering, we see that the microeconomics branch of economics deals more with the types of decisions we need to make as software engineers or managers.

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Kanban to manage Complex/ Quick Moving Situations

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We have a brownfield project which was recently struck by disaster (many people leaving for unrelated reasons, too many new customers, much too large backlog for much to few people, etc.). Management support is still fine. Thank bob the product owner (decades of knowledge) is still here. In the usual Scrum process, the P.O.

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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. Nobel Approaches & Practical Applications, AIT 2011.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. The same process for estimating is applied to multi-billion dollar projects we work. And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. .