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Black Swans

Herding Cats

This advocate continually confuses Macroeconomics of financial markets and sovereign finance with Microeconomics of software development. Here's a book review from 2008, about Black Swans and Fooled By Randomness in the context of managing software development in the presence of uncertainty.

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Black Swans

Herding Cats

This advocate continually confuses Macroeconomics of financial markets and sovereign finance with Microeconomics of software development. Here's a book review from 2008, about Black Swans and Fooled By Randomness in the context of managing software development in the presence of uncertainty.

2002 28
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Software Cost Accounting

Herding Cats

It is allocated funds to the budget for the project. But in the software development world, the domains of IT, there are two other colors of money. There are two types of software that are developed for a business: 1) internal-use software, and 2) software developed to be sold, leased or marketed (“software to be sold”).

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Use of Benefits of Tools for Project Risk Management,” T. Term Project Risk during Project Realization ?

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program.

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A Wrap Up of the #NoEstimating Conjecture Analysis to Date

Herding Cats

- There is an immutable set of questions that need answers before we can determine the probability of success for our project. Predicting the Future - With the #NoEstimates topic still ringing in my ears, here's an interesting presentation from one of the supporters of this concept. What's Gonna Cost and When Will We Be Done?

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Everything You Need to Know About Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) Estimates

Wrike

For example, instead of just presenting single-point estimates, managers should present budgets as a range. It helps in the evaluation, management, and control of software development. When estimating ROM, it is best to try and estimate in buckets of time and costs.