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MARCH 11, 2017

What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. This is the motivation for short work intervals found in agile development. .

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MAY 7, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. & Zein, S.,

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . 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.

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