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JUST SAY NO TO SOFTWARE ESTIMATION Michael Mah

At a recent conference on software development, I surveyed the 100 or so members of the audience who filled the room to hear about the dynamics of imposed deadlines and the impact on quality and reliability.

In the first of this series, I identified a maturity model for Internet technology adoption as follows:



Volume XI, No. 10;
October 1999
Q: Where do you think the misalignment between business and IT comes from?

One of the key factors in misalignment is change. There is so much change, things are moving so much faster, and business models are changing -- dramatically. We all know about the e-commerce initiatives from Internet companies such as Amazon.com, Dell, Cisco, and Intel.

Volume IX, No. 10; October 1999
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