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How To Base Your Beliefs About Agile On Evidence

Scrum.org

There are dozens of high-quality academic works to draw from, there are dozens of academic journals dedicated to (agile) software development (ASD) and change management. What distinguishes academic journals from regular magazines is that each submitted paper goes through a lengthy peer-review process. So where do you find it?

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ‒ Steve McConnell. The Future of Systems-and Software Development. Springer International Publishing, 2016.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

Effort Distribution to Estimate Cost in Small to Medium Software Development Project with Use Case Points,” Putu Linda Primandari and Sholiq, The Third Information Systems International Conference, Procedia Computer Science, 72, pp. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B.

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Resources for Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Seems there is still some confusion (intentional or accidental) about the Cone of Uncertainty and its purpose and its use in software development. The chief critic of the cone has data collected from his projects that develop Products. From his article in an IEEE magazine often quoted by No Estimates advocates. .

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100+ Tech Conferences and Events to Attend in Europe 2020

Teamweek

In their words: c’twebdev is a conference for web frontend developers, organized by the computer magazine c’t. In their words: Get better at modelling & designing software for complex domains. In their words: The Biggest multitrack Tech Conference of the Netherlands for all software developers.