A few years back, a colleague shared an interesting exercise with me. He took a deck of cards, split it in half, turned one half face up, then mixed all the cards up on a table and asked me how many ...

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Here’s a resolution for enterprise executives and IT leaders: This year – as you build your software products and solutions – resolve to give software estimating the focus it deserves. Any ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

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Steve McConnell is CEO and chief software engineer at Construx Software, but you’re more likely to recognize his name as the author of Code Complete and several other books that made him a software ...

Budgets explode. The initial "savings" evaporate as change orders pile up. Industry data suggests over 70% of software ...