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10 Deadly Sins of Software Estimation

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Overview The average project overruns its planned budget and schedule by almost 100 percent. In practice, little work is done that could truly be called "estimation." Many projects are scheduled using a combination of legitimate business targets and liberal doses of wishful thinking. View this video for a talk from award-winning author and Construx Software's Chief Software Engineer/CEO Steve McConnell, as he presents 10 of the worst ways estimates go wrong, and presents time-tested rules of thumb for dramatically improving estimation accuracy.

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Publisher: Construx Software Builders
File Format: Webcast
Date Published: Mar 18, 2009
Format: Webcasts

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