The Business of Software: Estimation Is Not Evil.
The article provides insights on reconciling agile approaches and project estimates in software development. In the so-called waterfall life cycle approach, only a few projects could or did legitimately predefine 100% of their requirements and design prior to development. The cost of the project and...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 57; no. 1; pp. 42 - 44 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Jan2014
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