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Foreword
“Plans are nothing. Planning is everything.” at’s how Dwight D. Eisenhower
clearly emphasized the importance of good estimation and planning processes. e
real purpose of eective estimation and planning is to set up estimates and plans
and also to change the thinking of impacted stakeholders. Estimation and planning
facilitate learning. It is neither the precise estimate nor the exact plan, generated
with some form of computer support, that counts. Instead, it is the understanding
of the direction to go and what risks, obstacles, and dependencies exist that is most
important.
Estimation and measu ...