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Software Estimating Resources

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Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. COSMIC Software Estimation Approach,” Alain Abran, ICEAA Workshop, Portland Oregon, June 6?9, Patnail, International Journal of Software Engineering, IJSE, 8.1,

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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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. Software quality measurement,” Magne Jørgensen, Advances in Engineering Software 30 (1999) 907–912.

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Risk Management Resources

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Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Management of Novel Projects Under Conditions of High Uncertainty,” A.

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Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for Software Development

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If we look at the discipline of software engineering, we see that the microeconomics branch of economics deals more with the types of decisions we need to make as software engineers or managers. Software engineering economics." IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, 1 (1984): 4-21.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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Information about key project cost, performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Using the Agile Methodology to Mitigate the Risks of Highly Adaptive Projects,” Dana Roberson and Mary Anne Herndon, 10 th Annual CMMI Technology Conference And User Group , November 5 – 8, 2012, Denver, CO.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

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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. In all engineering worlds, from software engineering to bending metal for money, there is really nothing new under the sun. This solution is called Software Engineering.