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4 Fallacious Reasons Why We Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons Why We Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the... Read more →

The Use, Misuse, and Danger of Metaphor

Metaphors are common in the discussion of project management, software development, and agile methods. Metaphors are simple, intuitive and appeal to the reader by making a connection between the author and the reader through a common language mechanism. Metaphors appear... Read more →

Definition of the Day

Uncertainty: A state of knowledge – measured by probability – represented by aleatory and epistemic elements. NASA-SP-2009-569, Bayesian Inference for NASA Probabilistic Risk and Reliability Analysis Managing in the presence of uncertainty is what successful project managers and their project... Read more →