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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . The naturally occurring work effort in the development of a software feature - even if we've built the feature before - is an irreducible uncertainty. There was a Tweet two days ago from one of the founders of eXtreme Programming, that said.

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Newbies’ Guide to Scrum Project Management 101

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Anyhow, this case study illustrates different real life examples of Scrum Project Management. It helps quicker delivery and better frequency in the software release by organizations. What is Scrum made of? “Scrum” is a phenomenal subject – i.e. if you are familiar with it. Introduction – Why Scrum?

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

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There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. Some Model-Based Systems Engineering process. Define the Probability Distribution Function for this range.

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Software Estimating Resources

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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. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian

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Webinar Recap: Agile Series Part 3 – Best Practices & Real World Use of Agile with MS Project / Project PPM

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This is session number three, where we really kind of take our final kind of what I’ll refer to as an overall summary of the activities that we’ve done, and we bring that together. My name is Kyle, and I’ll be the moderator today. And this session is eligible for one PMI, PDU in the Technical category. There we go.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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And when you hear estimates are a waste you'll realize that person must work in a de minimis project, where those paying have no need to know how much it will cost, when the project will be done, and what Capabilities they'll get for that time and money before the time and money runs outs. The Future of Systems-and Software Development.