Software Estimation Without Guessing

Efficiency and Effectiveness

It’s hard to talk about measuring progress without raising the topic of efficiency. People being people, it’s hard to be satisfied with the status quo of the progress you’re making, particularly if you’re waiting on someone else. There’s always a nagging suspicion that more is possible. There seems to be no limit for demand. We want more, more, MORE! For customers internal to the organization, the needs and wants seem always to exceed the ability to build systems that satisfy.

It’s hard to know, however, if you’re producing these systems as fast as you could produce them. You can, after the fact, identify ways in which you “wasted” time without contributing to your desired outcomes. Why can’t you identify which will ...