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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

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What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . If your project has no uncertainty, there is no need to estimate. Turns out in the real world there is no such project. All estimates have precision and accuracy. Accuracy - how close is the estimate to the actual value?

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Black Swans

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One of the books used by a vocal No Estimates advocate is Black Swans by Nassim Taleb. What struck me was how disconnected Taleb is from the profession of project management. The concepts of Taleb and its application to project management is shared by some in the project management community (and now in the No Estimates community).

2002 34
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Black Swans

Herding Cats

One of the books used by a vocal No Estimates advocate is Black Swans by Nassim Taleb. What struck me was how disconnected Taleb is from the profession of project management. The concepts of Taleb and its application to project management is shared by some in the project management community (and now in the No Estimates community).

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51+ Best Project Management Software & Tools [Updated Oct 2019]

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A cloud-based PM software, LiquidPlanner is a PM tool with a number of integrations that makes project management extremely easy and fun. Project budgeting. Project case estimates. Pros: Easy project navigation. Task estimates are accurate. Features: Project cost tracking. Project budgeting.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

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Agile Universe , 2002. Continuous Risk Management , Risk management is essential for the success of any significant project. Information about key project cost, performance, and schedule attributes are often unknown until the project is underway. . Options only have value if there is uncertainty.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. When I left for the airport this morning to catch my flight to a customer site I estimated, given the conditions, how much time I need to get to my favorite parking spot at DIA. Google will find these when there is no URL provided.

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Software Estimating Resources

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This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian