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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. Chakraborty and K.

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DONE Understanding Of The “Definition Of DONE”

Scrum.org

What does it take for the service engineer to call the customer for the delivery of his/her vehicle? What does it take for the Development team to put the Product into Production? Quality is largely aligned to the coding language/Rapid Application Development (RAD)/technical tools to build the Product. Example: Quality.

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How mergers and acquisitions can cement IT as a strategic business partner

Project Accelerator News

Despite the slow economy and provisional estimates which suggested lower mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity at the start of 2023, there were 365 mergers and acquisitions involving UK Companies during Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2023 according to the Office of National Statistics. You should be given a cape! This stands to reason.

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Agile project management- A tutorial

Binfire

The Agile project management methodology has been used by software engineers and IT professionals for the past sixteen years. In the late twenty century, many software engineering researchers in academia were studying the disturbing fact that most software and IT projects finish late or fail to finish at all. Project Estimation.

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Agile project management- A tutorial

Binfire

In the late twenty century many software engineering researchers in academia were studying the disturbing fact that most software and IT projects finish late or fail to finish at all. In 2001 a group of software engineers and scientists in IT industry got together and wrote Agile Manifesto. Project Estimation.

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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

Workamajig

Actual dates are different from planned or estimated dates. Actual Effort: The actual effort spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated effort. Actual Expenditure: The actual expenditure spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated expenditure.

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Integrated Master Plan - Revisited

Herding Cats

CAMs are available to generate the bottom-up detail planning that fits with the top-down planning of the IMP development process. The PM and Chief Engineer should be a part of the session that develops the Events. It is important to get their approval of the Events before developing the next level of detail in the IMP.