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...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 55; no. 10; pp. 24 - 26
Main Author:	Armour, Phillip G.
Format:	Opinion
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Oct2012
Subjects:	Cost estimates Decision making in business Project finance Computer software development Mathematical models Cost
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost