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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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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. All engineering courses, including software development in Computer Science courses, is based on probability and statistics at some level.

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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. Defining Uncertainty in Projects ? Software Engineering Institute, January 1996.

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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. Related articles.

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What Is IT Management? Why Is IT Important for Businesses?

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They include computer programmers, web developers, support specialists, IT technicians, network engineers, database administrators, software engineers, computer scientists, data scientists and IT security specialists. That’s only a few. In terms of business, IT can touch on almost all departments of a company.

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Deconstruction the #NoEstimates Conjecture

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Yes, this is the basis of any closed loop control system from keeping the room temperature at a specific setting, to the speed control on your car, to managing software development projects in the presence of uncertainty. The link to the quote in the original book can be found here, Software Engineering and Metrics.