7 | 1999
Introduction
Ed Yourdon

Project Estimation with Critical Chain: Third-Generation Risk Management
Richard E. Zultner

Get the Estimate Right
Lawrence H. Putnam and Ware Myers

Software Estimation: What We Can Learn from Student Projects
Nancy R. Mead

What's in a Number?
Lynne Nix

The Case for Knowledge-Based Microestimation
Mark Pinis

Some IT organizations still haven't learned the basics of project estimating: they don't estimate tasks at an appropriate level of detail, they don't keep historical data with which to improve the accuracy of their estimates, and they don't account for high-risk activities and interruptions throughout the project. Some of the articles in this issue attempt, once again, to present the basics in a compelling and digestible form.