LiquidPlanner

JUNE 1, 2016

In 2006 I left a great gig at Expedia to start LiquidPlanner with a fellow Expedia colleague, Charles Seybold. We didn’t really realize it at the time, but we built and launched the company using many of the concepts that Eric Ries later elegantly defined in his 2008 book The Lean Startup. Humble Beginnings.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management: When Performance is Measured Performance Improves , Daniel Galaorath and Michael Evans , Auerbach, 2006. Software Sizing and Estimating: Mk II FPA , Charles Symons, John Wiley & Sons, 1991. Agile Estimating and Planning , Mike Cohn, Prentice Hall, 2006.

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MARCH 11, 2017

Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E. McMahon, Cross Talk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering , July/August 2015, pp. Architecting Large Scale Agile Software Development: A Risk–Driven Approach,” Ipek Ozkaya, Michael Gagliardi, Robert L. Kirkeboen, G., &

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Wrike

MARCH 14, 2023

Let’s take a quick look at the advantages of using Jira: Because it’s part of a bigger group, it offers integrations with a range of products, including over 3,000 Jira Software apps that can be tailored for your use case. Due to its origins in software engineering, Jira is great for issue management. What is Wrike?

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FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Iterative and incremental are standard practices from software development of large construction (Lean Construction). In all engineering worlds, from software engineering to bending metal for money, there is really nothing new under the sun. Rarely are software engineers working on science experiments.

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

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MAY 7, 2019

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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