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Process Improvement In the Second Grade

Our daughter is an elementary school teacher in Austin - and a Graduate student at UT Austin in the Board Certified Behavioral Analyst program. When I hear about some corrective action to an unnamed cause - not the symptom but... Read more →

Estimating Software Intensive Systems

Estimation and the measurements that result are critical success factors for Sofware Intensive Systems. Software development projects exist to design, build, and test products and to provide services from those software systems to customers. These products and there services include... Read more →

Debunking: The Five Laws of Software Estimating

The Five Laws of Software Estimating contains several Bunk ideas. let's look at each of the Five 1. Estimates are a Waste Time spent on estimates is time that isn’t spent delivering value. It’s a zero-sum game when it comes... Read more →

Decision Making Without Estimates?

In a recent post, there are 5 suggestions of how decisions about software development can be made in the absence of estimating the cost, duration, and impact of these decisions. Before looking at each in more detail, let's see what... Read more →