Closing Definition Estimate Software Engineering 
Binfire
AUGUST 27, 2017
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.
Binfire
APRIL 7, 2017
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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Herding Cats
FEBRUARY 9, 2018
I've seen estimates abused by bad managers, so let's NOT estimate and that will fix the behavior of Bad Managers." While the human behaviors are real and observable, conjecturing that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the outcome of those decisions, there is no principle to support that conjecture.
Herding Cats
JUNE 19, 2017
The Cone of Uncertainty is a framing assumption used to model the needed reduction in some parameter of interest in domains ranging from software development to hurricane forecasting. Closed Loop Stochastic Adaptive control in the presence of Evolving Uncertainty. The definition of a TPM is on page 14. . .
PM Basics
APRIL 24, 2018
Definition of a SDLC? When I googled “software development life cycle definition” I found different variants. Phases in Software Development. Here are some common phases of the software development: Project Initiation. Requirements Definition. Requirements Definition. Some say it is a framework.
Herding Cats
MARCH 4, 2017
Let's start with a clear and concise description of the problem of successfully managing projects in the presence of uncertainty: Accurate software cost and schedule estimations are essential for non-trivial software projects. As a software project progresses, more information about the project is known.
Herding Cats
FEBRUARY 4, 2017
Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Here's a simple definition of the Cone of Uncertainty: .
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