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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. COSMIC Software Estimation Approach,” Alain Abran, ICEAA Workshop, Portland Oregon, June 6?9, Estimating Probable System Cost,” Stephen A. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian

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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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Milestone-Kanban: A Hybrid Project Scheduling Technique

The IIL Blog

The underlying assumption that the work is well-defined, and the required effort can be easily estimated is a shortcoming of these approaches. Work packages are small enough to be estimated and assigned. MKS creates a roadmap depicting major milestones and deliverables with their estimated completion dates.

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5 Lektionen, die ich im ersten Jahr als Product Owner gelernt habe, die Dir viel Zeit und Frust ersparen können

Scrum.org

Anfang 2016 übernahm ich das erste Mal Verantwortung für ein Produkt. Es ging so schnell, dass es wie Magie wirkte, daher ist der Name diese Methode auch "Magic Estimation". Nach dem Gespräch realisierte ich, dass Schätzen nicht immer im Sinne der Lean-Philosophie, als Zeitverschwendung zu betrachten ist.

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Improve Your Project Schedule

International Institute for Learning

Work packages are small deliverables that are assignable and estimable. Estimate the time needed to execute each task. It is possible to estimate each task’s resource needs and effort. Traditional tools allow us to model task interdependencies and estimate the critical path. Decompose the scope into work packages.

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Busy, But Not Productive

International Institute for Learning

Despite our rudimentary technology, we were (in my estimate) at least as productive and less stressed out than most people are today. We simply need to start judiciously applying the principles of lean-agile management. Labor productivity rates surged in the mid-1990s when personal computers became ubiquitous. Founding Principal.

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If It Was My Organization

Agile Coach

Taking an idea from The Feedback Wrap , this post was written on a beautiful Sunday night by the pool on the eve of Agile 2016, and after a skimming of “ Why Business People Speak Like Idiots “ I’m in a mellow mood, but feeling a little annoyed with whole world of Agile lately. What estimation technique is the best?

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