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JANUARY 23, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. Yes, you have to pay for them, but that cost is cheap compared to a naive and novice approach based on experimenting with other people's money. Complexity Primer (Sandia).

Estimate 37

Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 37

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FEBRUARY 9, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. And money in the bank is what software development is about. Traditional software development processes are like watchmaking.

Estimate 42

Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 42

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MAY 7, 2019

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. Patnail, International Journal of Software Engineering, IJSE, 8.1,

Estimate 40

Estimate Software Review Software 2012 40

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

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.

Estimate 64

Estimate 2006 2005 2013 64