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Basis of Estimating Software Development

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The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. When it is suggested that estimating is hard, of no value, and unnecessary, always ask what principle is used to support that claim? Software Sizing and Estimating: Mk II FPA , Charles Symons, John Wiley & Sons, 1991.

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

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Software development is (generally speaking) very complex. Although our brain is a marvel of evolution, it has not evolved to excel at the kind of knowledge work (Davenport, 2005) that we actually do most of the time. This will affect all estimates and predictions. This will affect all estimates and predictions.

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Decision Making On Software Development Projects

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Decision Making on Software Development Projects Is Both Simple and Complex at the Same Time. Reducible risk requires estimating the probability distribution of the occurrence. Irreducible risk requires estimating the statistical distribution of the naturally occurring processes. Risk management requires estimating.

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What's Missing from the Agile Software Development Paradigm

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Agile software development is framed by a manifesto , a set of 12 principles, several methods. These are all focused on developing software, delivering that software to those paying the developers. Why This Missing Concept is Important to Agile Software Development? . 81-100, 2009. [4]

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PERT Guide For Project Managers and Productivity Gurus

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PERT or Project Evaluation and Review Technique is a statistical tool that is used in project management to estimating the minimum time required for a project to complete by analyzing all the tasks required and by calculating the minimum time it would take to complete each task in the project. Introduction. Critique of the PERT Methodology.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

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Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016. Integrating Agile Software Development with Earned Value Management , College of Performance Management, IPM Workshop, 2015. How to Develop Credible Cost & Schedule Estimate.

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Agile Project Management for Distributed Teams

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As we have previously discussed that the outsourced software development has increased dramatically in recent years. And since 2005, each year the remote workforce has increased by 10% which makes it 140% in 2019, which is huge. Agile Project Management for Distributed Teams. Velocity Chart. Burndown Chart.