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Better Estimating Through Software Sizing
How do you know how long it will take? Gut feel is how many do their estimations. Late last year, I attended a webinar that intrigued me. I had heard of feature point analysis (FPA) before, but I...
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Stupid Estimate Mistakes
Or, rather how to avoid them. Project management is largely about estimates and hitting them, after all. TechRepulic did an article on the “10 ways to avoid stupid project estimates” (PDF format). I...
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Real Life Project Management
Steve McConnell wrote about a home project he worked on in “Building a Fort: Lessons in Software Estimation” and the take-aways he had. It’s a neat little reminder that, consciously or not, we...
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Avoiding Project Estimating Mistakes and Constructive Pessimism
It happens to everyone sooner or later. Someone made an error in giving an estimate on a task or set of tasks. The causes can be many. Sometimes, the estimate might be fatal to the timeline of the...
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Are Accurate Estimates a Myth?
Yesterday, I pointed you to Robert Merrill’s post about “A Tale of two processes” comparing waterfall and Agile. So, it seems appropriate today to point you to another of his posts “Software sanity:...
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