[SystemSafety] Collected stopgap measures
Steve Tockey
Steve.Tockey at construx.com
Sat Nov 17 05:44:28 CET 2018
Derek,
Seriously? This is the best you have to offer??
— steve
> On Nov 16, 2018, at 2:00 PM, Derek M Jones <derek at knosof.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Steve,
>
>> If you properly apply the engineering process (as described in the new
>> book) then your actual schedule and cost will almost certainly be about
>> half of your estimated schedule and cost given the same level of staffing.
>> We are highly confident in stating this because these are the results we
>> have already seen on projects.
>
> Many companies would be happy for their estimated schedule to be within
> 50% of the actual schedule.
>
> Unless this is pure advertising puff, destined for the dust jacket
> of the book, it ought to say something like:
>
> "We are highly confident in stating this because these are the results
> we have estimated to have occurred on other projects."
>
> Since you have not seen these results, only estimated that they have
> occurred.
>
> --
> Derek M. Jones Software analysis
> tel: +44 (0)1252 520667 blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com
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