Books Budget Estimate Software Engineering 
Herding Cats
OCTOBER 5, 2018
There is a discussion of the conjecture that estimates are a waste, estimates can't be done, estimates are evil, estimates must be stopped immediately. In our domain of engineered systems, there is a broad range of problems, complex issues, approaches to solving problems. In all cases, we start our work with.
Herding Cats
NOVEMBER 3, 2016
Since all risk comes from uncertainty - reducible (Epistemic) and irreducible (Aleatory), estimating is a foundation of all we do. There is no discussion of the conjecture that estimates are a waste, estimates can't be done, estimates are evil, estimates must be stopped immediately. illities are a waste.
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Herding Cats
AUGUST 27, 2017
There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.
Herding Cats
JUNE 12, 2018
Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. Then conjecturing (here) that Not Estimating will somehow fix the problem of when you are DSTOP. The supposed evidence in the presentation, that estimating "does not work" starts with the Chaos Report. This is called Doing Stupid Things on Purpose (DSTOP).
Herding Cats
APRIL 4, 2019
All making things smaller dos is show that you're late, over budget, and what you're building (Technical Performance Measures) doesn't work faster. So here are some books, handbooks, and guides that sit on my shelf that are used pretty much all the time on the Software Intensive System of Systems we work on. No References?
Herding Cats
MAY 11, 2017
I started my career as a Software Engineer , writing Fortran 77 signal processing algorithms to find and track missile launchers in the middle eastern desert. It was mathematically based, converting equations in books to Fortran using pre-written parts from the IBM Scientific Subroutine Package. Related articles.
Herding Cats
JUNE 12, 2018
Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. Then conjecturing (here) that Not Estimating will somehow, through some unstated process of correction or prevention, fix the problem of when you are DSTOP. TO DO in Rally, Remaining Estimate in Jira, and other fields in Team Foundation Server and VersionOne. Not likely.
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