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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

So start here to build your academic foundation, that can be put to work to build a foundation of validated experience of making estimates in the presence of uncertainty and protect yourself from fallacious claims that estimates are a waste, not needed, and produce bad resulting in the decision making process for those paying you to produce value.

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Vendor Showcase Recap: Where There’s a Widget, There’s a Way: Unleashing the Power of Microsoft Project! – By Project Widgets

MPUG

So I’m going to go into our project online environment here and as you can see, I’m in a project here called Application Development. You can imagine somebody new to your company that opens this up for the first time and sees all these tasks and they’re wondering, “I wonder what the process is I should follow.

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

MPUG

So individuals and interactions over processes and tools. Now it’s not to say that processes and tools are bad or documentation is bad or putting something in writing, but the idea is that there’s an investment that really will be a little bit different. There are a lot of different ways to approach this.

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