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APRIL 16, 2019

The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. The overarching theme is focused on defining what Done looks like, assessing progress toward Done in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers. Project Success Assessment - A checklist for assessing the processes for project success.

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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

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JANUARY 23, 2019

Yet another class #NoEstimates lack of understanding of estimating, reference class forecasting, reference class databases, parametric estimating, estimating tools, and other well established estimating processes in the agile software development world. Subscribe to one of several reference class estimating sites.

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Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 37

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AUGUST 22, 2018

These are classic examples from an author who is either unskilled, untrained, and inexperienced in estimating software development. Or who willfully ignores the knowledge and resources readily available in textbooks, papers, tools, and training for how to create credible estimates for software systems. By simply NOT Estimating?

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Estimate Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 35

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FEBRUARY 9, 2019

40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things. A #Noestimates advocate makes the claim that having a ±10% accuracy for estimates of cost and duration is a dangerous thing. We develop these reference classes using Agile Function Points. Use these to develop a Systems Model of the products

Estimate 42

Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 42