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Build Awesome: RoR Devs Wanted

LiquidPlanner

Sure, we did our best muddling through the process with complex spreadsheets that were out-of-date as soon as they were built. In other words, it was like the wild west of project management. LiquidPlanner is the only predictive scheduling engine on the market. Building LiquidPlanner. We left Expedia to fix this problem.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. The same process for estimating is applied to multi-billion dollar projects we work. And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . 5 Oct 1990, Page 21. 8, August 1995.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

The reason for this resource page is the lack of understanding of how to estimate, the urban myths about software estimating, and the fallacies that estimating is not needed, when developing software, in the presence of uncertainty, when spending other peoples money. Flint, School of Management, Working Paper Series, September 2005.”.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. In all engineering worlds, from software engineering to bending metal for money, there is really nothing new under the sun. For software development starts with.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. With what appears to be NO understanding of how to estimate, this author ignores the processes used in developing products or services in the presence of uncertainty.