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10 DEADLY SINS OF SOFTWARE ESTIMATION

The average project overruns its planned budget and schedule by 50-80 percent. In practice, little work is done that could truly be called "estimation." Many projects are scheduled using a combination of legitimate business targets and liberal doses of wishful thinking. In this presentation, award-winning author Steve McConnell presents 10 of the worst ways estimates go wrong, and presents time-tested rules of thumb for dramatically improving estimation accuracy.


"10 Deadly Sins of Software Estimation" Presentation (pdf) 
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