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Imagine you're cooking a new recipe. You have the ingredients, the instructions and the tools. Yet, as you cook, you run into problems: some ingredients need more prep time, the oven heats unevenly ...

Software effort estimation is a critical component in the planning and management of agile software projects. In the fluid environment of agile development, teams must rapidly iterate and adapt, ...

"When will it be done?" seems a simple question, but as anyone who works in modern product delivery knows, this can be hard to answer. Complex software platforms and cloud services are a fundamentally ...

In a recent client conversation, the topic of estimating backlog items in hours came up. It seems that I stepped on a hornet’s nest when I suggested that the client adopt a relative estimating ...