Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art

Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art Steve McConnell
Publisher: Microsoft Press

Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Best Practices. The folks at Construx have published a nice explanation of the cone of uncertainty – an adaptation of an idea from Steven McConnell's Software Estimation: Demystifying The Black Art (2006). Practices of an Agile Developer (Pragmatic Bookshelf) by Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt Software Creativity 2.0 (DeveloperDotStar) by Robert L. Movie: "Make Better Software" is a 6 movie course designed to help you as you grow from a micro-ISV to a large software company. Software Estimation – Demystifying the Black Art is another masterpiece by Steve McConnell. [2] This and the next section follows Chapter 4 of Steve McConnell's book, Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Microsoft Press, 2006). Steve McConnell is the best-selling author of Code Complete and Rapid Development, winners of Software Development's Jolt award as well as Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art, and other titles. No sooner had I finished reading it than I had to do a bunch of estimation for a project I'm on. Book: Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Best Practices (Microsoft)); Author: Steve McConnell; Number of pages: 308; Text-book file-sizes: 2.74 – 16.06 Mb; Audio-book file-sizes: 134.9 – 184.8 Mb. [1] Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art, 2006 ISBN:0735605351. A wonderful book is "Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art". Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art is one of those books that came to me just in the nick of time. Book Review - Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art. I introduced in last june book Code Complete 2 by same author – it is suggested reading for developers. For more information about the technique required to develop this skill (called calibration) see Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art and How to Measure Anything: Finding the Intangibles in Business. But instead, he suggests to the performance . At first glance, it appears that the executive asks for a timing estimate. Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art by Steve McConnell is a book that meets my definition of a good technical book. Steve McConnell's book, "Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art" advises us as rule #1 to "Distinguish between estimates, targets, and commitments", however.