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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

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.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. When I left for the airport this morning to catch my flight to a customer site I estimated, given the conditions, how much time I need to get to my favorite parking spot at DIA. So when you hear we can't estimate you'll know better.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

Herding Cats

Economics is the study of how people make decisions in resource-limited situations. Economics has two basis branches: Macroeconomics is the study of how people make decisions in resource-limited situations on a national or global scale. A recent survey of 600 firms indicated that 35% of them had at least one "runaway' software project.

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In-Depth: How Easily Biases Distort What We Believe (In The Workplace)

Scrum.org

When teams estimate work, hearing an initial estimate is likely to “anchor” further estimates. So when people are asked how much time something will take, and they are offered an initial estimate of 20 days, their own estimates will gravitate towards that number. . Examples in the workplace. Survival bias.

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How Kunder uses Paymo to make accurate project estimates and schedule their workforce

Paymo App

Case study: Kunder. Kunder started out in 2013 as a three person Software as a Service (SaaS) company with one idea: to provide companies with feedback tools for their clients. Kunder started out in 2013 as a three person Software as a Service (SaaS) company with one idea: to provide companies with feedback tools for their clients.

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Making the Move from Business Analyst to Product Owner

International Institute for Learning

Software development is going to adopt Scrum as its operating approach to developing software. New items are added to the backlog by the product owner as they are identified and placed in the backlog according to the product owner’s estimate of their priority. By Steve P. You get the word: “We are going AGILE!”

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . If your project has no uncertainty, there is no need to estimate. All estimates have precision and accuracy. Deciding how much precision and accuracy is needed for a credible estimate is critical to the success of that decision.

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