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Misquotes of Deming

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I spent the week speaking at the College of Performance Management conference where government and industry come together to work on the issues of cost, schedule, and technical performance management process improvement needed to increase the probability of program success. Technical Performance Measures.

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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

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Thus, the common approach to "measure productivity" is to compare the estimates against what, in fact, happened. After having worked for outsourcing, consultancy and product companies I believe that creating a place where people really trust each other is easier when software engineers and stakeholders are both part of the same organization.

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Start with Principles, Not Personal Anecdotes

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The "bad management" is itself a symptom of untrained, inexperienced, unskilled decision making processes in the presence of uncertainty. . An Estimate is a value inferred for a population of values based on data collected from a sample of data from that population or generated from a model of the process being estimated.