false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171264054m/93891.jpg 93891 1 Often referred to as the "black art" because of its complexity and uncertainty, software estimation is not as hard or mysterious as people think. However, the art of how to create effective cost and schedule estimates has not been very well publicized. While the average software organization can struggle with project costs that run double their original estimates, some of the more sophisticated organizations achieve results with estimation errors as low as 5-10%. These best-in-class organizations use scientific techniques that are not cost-effective, however, making them of limited use to most software development organizations. To address these issues, Software Estimation focuses on the art of software estimation and provides a proven set of procedures and heuristics that software developers, technical leads, and project managers can apply to their projects. Instead of arcane treatises and rigid modeling techniques, award-winning author Steve McConnell gives practical guidance to help organizations achieve basic estimation proficiency and lay the groundwork to continue improving project cost estimates. This book is organized from simple tips to more advanced ideas; it does not avoid the more hairy mathematical estimation approaches, but the non-mathematical reader will find plenty of useful guidelines without getting bogged down in complex formulas. 90512 1 3 2006 Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Best Practices (Microsoft)) total:26|5:4|4:15|3:7|2:0|1:0| 26 101 69 8 93891 0735605351 9780735605350 26 8 3.88 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171264054m/93891.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93891.Software_Estimation_Demystifying_the_Black_Art 4 1 false Wed Jul 04 22:07:28 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 08 20:04:06 -0700 2007 93891 0735605351 9780735605350 26 8 3.88 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171264054m/93891.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93891.Software_Estimation_Demystifying_the_Black_Art 5 0 false Sat Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 19:36:01 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 10:02:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 93891 0735605351 9780735605350 26 8 3.88 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171264054m/93891.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93891.Software_Estimation_Demystifying_the_Black_Art 4 0 false Tue Mar 17 06:05:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 06:08:16 -0700 2009
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