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Why Johnny Can't Estimate? (Update)

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Mine is in hard science and systems engineering. Some colleagues have engineering or finance educations. Let's start with the core issue on all software development projects. Here's a book that shows how to do that no matter the domain. . This usually starts with education. Collecting and analyzing the data.

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Risk Management Resources

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Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

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Why Johnny Can't Estimate?

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Some colleagues have engineering or finance educations. This book provides a clear, complete understanding of how to estimate software costs, schedule, and quality using real-world information. . There is a serious issue in estimating realistic software project budgets and schedules. How and when to reestimate.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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Same Same but Different †

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These systems fall into the Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) category. The notion that innovation and engineering - software engineering - are somehow in conflict is common. . Both agile advocates and engineered systems advocates practice innovation and creativity. 39-58, 1997. [3] Related articles.

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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

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Although I understand measuring productivity could work well for repeatable activities, it's hard to believe it works well for abstract and, ultimately, non-repeatable tasks like software development. We engineers should always keep in mind that software development is usually one part of many others inside the company.

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How to Estimate Any Software Problem

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Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. Here are some books and papers that can provide you with all the tools needed to learn to estimate in the presence of uncertainty. Ask the person making those conjectures if they have read the books.