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In-Depth: What a Social Systems Perspective Teaches us About Change

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The mechanical perspective draws attention to the structure and processes of organizations. In the following century, it would give rise to modern-day practices like lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and Gantt-charts. From the mechanical perspective, change is defined in terms of modifications to structures and processes.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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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. . Here's some materials that provide the tools and processes needed to learn how to estimate. Armour, Communications of the ACM , January 2014, Vol.

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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.