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Why Johnny Can't Estimate? (Update)

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Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. There is a discussion of the conjecture that estimates are a waste, estimates can't be done, estimates are evil, estimates must be stopped immediately. Mine is in hard science and systems engineering. In all cases, we start our work with.

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Why Johnny Can't Estimate?

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Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. Since all risk comes from uncertainty - reducible (Epistemic) and irreducible (Aleatory), estimating is a foundation of all we do. To be informed how to estimate in this broad range of domains, problems, and impacts - education, exp[erience, and skill are needed.

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How to Estimate Any Software Problem

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ways to make decisions with No Estimates. Uncertainty of course is present in all software development work both reducible and irreducible uncertainty. How will we recognize it when we encounter it? Any expectations of how to measure if what we found is what we're actually looking for? An estimate is.

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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

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There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

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There is always lots of complaining about the biases introduced into managing projects and making the estimates needed to make project decisions. Managerial Finance - the branch of finance that concerns itself with the managerial significance of finance techniques. These principles originate in: . A final Thought .

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

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There is always lots of complaining about the biases introduced into managing projects and making the estimates needed to make project decisions. Managerial Finance - the branch of finance that concerns itself with the managerial significance of finance techniques. These principles originate in: . A final Thought .

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Risk Management Resources

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requires making estimates) ? This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996.