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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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Two Parallel Processes of Project Success - Both Value and Delivery are Needed

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For software development, those scarce resources are people, time, and money. Software engineering economics is a topic that addresses the elements of software project costs estimation and analysis and project benefit-cost ratio analysis.

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21 Types Of Project Management Software (With Examples)

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And you’ll want to find a platform that fits your project methodology, whether that’s Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid, etc. Software developers will be relieved to find Backlog , a PM tool built solely for IT and software engineering teams. Example: Microsoft Project. Desktop vs. online PM software.

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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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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. 9, Issue 3, No.

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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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A Wrap Up of the #NoEstimating Conjecture Analysis to Date

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Connecting the Dots Between Principles and Practices of Project Success. We're Asking the Wrong Question - does this suggestion (#NoEstimates) increase the probability of project success? Is There Such a Thing As Making Decisions Without Knowing the Cost? Software Engineering Economics - all decisions are economic decisions.