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5 Steps to Get the (Right) Software Engineering Job on a Top Technical Team

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So you want a software engineering job at Facebook/Apple/Amazon/Google/Netflix? It’s every software engineer’s dream to work with one of the top technical teams in the world. So how do you get a software engineering job at one of these companies? How to build a portfolio site for software engineering jobs.

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Implications of Artificial Intelligence on Project Management

The IIL Blog

He served on the Global Board of Directors Project Management Institute Global Board of Directors from 2007-2012 and was elected Board Chair in 2010. He additionally served as Director of Civil Agencies at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute and as Senior Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton.

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Software Estimating Resources

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“Effort Estimation of Use Cases for Incremental Large-Scale Software Development,” Pareastoo Mohagheghi, Bente Anda, and Reidat Conradi, Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B. 1, May 2012.

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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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Reading List for the Cone of Uncertainty

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A Quick Estimation Approach to Software Cost Estimation," Leckraj Nagowah, Hajrah BibiBenazir, and Bachun, African Conference on Software Engineering and Applied Computing , . "A A Probabilistic Method for Predicting Software Code Growth," Michael Ross, Journal of Cost Analysis and Parametrics 4:127-147, 2011. "10

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Thinking By Sprinting: What Cognitive Science Tells Us About Why Scrum Works

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Why our brain is not built for software engineering. Retrieved from [link] on December 17, 2012; Gigerenzer, G. Retrieved from [link] on December 17, 2012; Heylighen, F. Retrieved from [link] on December 17, 2012 ; Heylighen F. Boston: Harvard Business Press; Gershenson, C. and Heylighen, F. and Selten, R.

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Risk Management Resources

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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. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.