The Business of Software: The Goldilocks Estimate.
The author discusses project estimates in software development, arguing that organizations often make decisions based on low quality estimates made quickly with little research or spend too much time and money accounting for any possible uncertainty in a project estimate. He outlines a formula for t...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 55; no. 10; pp. 24 - 26 |
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| Formato: | Opinion |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Oct2012
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