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Software Cost Accounting

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Blue money, is referred to as budget. Budget is nor spendable money, since it is not actually currency. It is allocated funds to the budget for the project. But in the software development world, the domains of IT, there are two other colors of money. So Now What About Agile Development Processes.

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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

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Bottleneck: In project management terms, a bottleneck is any constraint that restricts the movement of a process. With this approach, the project's cost and/or duration are calculated by adding the cost/duration of all its constituent activities. Budget : The sum total of all the money allocated for a project.

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Software Estimating Resources

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“The Use of Simulation Techniques for Hybrid Software Cost Estimation and Risk Analysis,” Michael Kläs, Adam Trendowicz, Axel Wickenkamp, Jürgen Münch, Nahomi Kikuchi, and Yasushi Ishigai, Advances in Computers, Volume 74, Elsevier, 2008. Evaluating Project Decisions,” INTAVER Institute. Anderson and Jeffrey S. 1, February 2014. “On