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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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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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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.

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The Ontological Fallacy of No Estimates

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Microeconomics of Software Development - Microeconomics is a branch of economics that studies the behavior of individuals and their decision making on the allocation of limited resources. Software development operates in the presence of scarce resources. It's the scarcity of resources that is the basis of Microeconomics.

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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 for a specific setting, to the speed control on your car, to managing software development projects in the presence of uncertainty, using any software method you choose. Estimating Agile Software Development.

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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.