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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

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Managerial Finance - the branch of finance that concerns itself with the managerial significance of finance techniques. With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. 5] "Decisions in software development projects management.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

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Managerial Finance - the branch of finance that concerns itself with the managerial significance of finance techniques. With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. 5] "Decisions in software development projects management.

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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. Thus, the common approach to "measure productivity" is to compare the estimates against what, in fact, happened.

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Start with Principles, Not Personal Anecdotes

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In the project domain, an estimate is a calculated approximation of some desired measurement. This is usually a cost, a completion date, a performance measure used in a closed loop control system to keep the project GREEN while delivering the needed Capabilities to produce the Value for the customer at the needed time for the needed cost.