A few years back, a colleague shared an interesting exercise with me. He took a deck of cards, split it in half, turned one half face up, then mixed all the cards up on a table and asked me how many ...

If you have ever shopped around for development help, you probably received a wide range of estimates. Why is that? How would it cost one team $500,000 and another team $100,000 to complete the same ...

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Okay, so I’m just going to go ahead and say it: It is impossible to accurately estimate a software project of any significance. Now, a non-trivial number of you are going to read that sentence and ...