Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Best Practices (Microsoft))

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Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Best Practices (Microsoft))
by Steve McConnell
from Microsoft Press

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Science of software estimation
  Steve McConnell explains how software estimation is more a science than an art. Information in this books can applied to agile development as well to the classical approach. So if You struggle (I'm sure You do) with estimation, this is excellent book for You, it doesn't matter whether You are a developer or a manager.

• Excellent software engineering book backed up by solid empirical studies
  Honesty, I was expecting very "soft" content, i.e., pages spent over-analyzing obvious points and so on. BUT this description could not be farther from the truth. In Software Estimation, McConnell draws on over a hundred published studies on the topic of software estimation as well as numerous case studies. The book is data driven and based on statistical techniques. McConnell emphases counting concrete project steps and comparing them with previous estimates where as intuiting off-the-cuff estimates is a... more info

• Good Primer to start with
  I have just completed the reading. Not that, I didn't know estimation, nor that I was struggling to do a right kind of estimation. I am already fairly accustomed with standard tools and techniques in the world of professional software estimation. What I found appealing in this book is the approach towards estimation at the start.
  Today, I was sitting in an informal discussion session with a bunch of college graduates who barely completed 1 year in this industry. It was an open discussion set, and one... more info

• A Must Have Resource
  Basic premise: that "the goal is software estimation is not pinpoint accuracy but estimates that are accurate enough to support effective project control. To that end, a "good estimate" is one that "provides a clear enough view of the project reality to allow the project leadership to make good decisions about how to control the project to hit its targets."
  Software estimation is inherently nontrivial. The resulting product is virtually invisible until it is finished---and you rarely end up with the... more info

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