Bold Leap Forward Getting the business to accept responsibility and authority for the scope of systems (the major organizational implication of Extreme Programming) is reasonable and possible, the results are satisfying and valuable. |
Bold Leap Forward Getting the business to accept responsibility and authority for the scope of systems (the major organizational implication of Extreme Programming) is reasonable and possible, the results are satisfying and valuable. |
Although the US IT workforce has grown by 1% ... since the beginning of the year, the short-term hiring outlook continues to remain bleak ... [jobless] IT professionals [with] in-demand skills ... point the finger at H-1B visa holders and offshore programming outfits, where a growing number of companies are shifting their development and maintenance work to reduce costs.
-- Thomas Hoffman, ComputerWorld, 23 September 2002
In this month's CBR, we take on a classic issue: software estimation. It's a classic because it looks, on the surface, like something we ought to have figured out by now. There's a "way it's supposed to work" that looks plausible. That way -- the "objective estimation" version -- goes something like this: