Counting Boulders and Measuring Mountains
Accuracy and the measurement of peaks and projects.
Phillip G. Armour
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Sarbanes-Oxley and Software Projects
"If we managed finances in companies the way we manage software…somebody would go to prison."---Introduction to a workshop on configuration management conducted by Corvus International in 1996
Project Portfolios: Organizational Management of Risk
Assessing companies' differing attitudes toward identifying and calculating risk-taking endeavors.
Not-Defect: the Mature Discipline of Testing
Taking a deliberate, measured approach to software development and testing.
Real Work, Necessary Friction, Optional Chaos
Challenges in estimating software scope by effort.
Seeking a better method for estimating system size in an attempt to measure knowledge content.
The Organism and the Mechanism of Projects
Software developers would do well to place more emphasis on the social and communication traits of team members.
The Spiritual Life of Projects
The human factor in software development is the ingredient that ultimately gives a project team its soul.
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