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Defining "Done"
08 September 08 01:32 PM | Earl Beede | 1 comment(s)

In software development, like many other areas of life, we need to decide when some item of work is done. The decision of "doneness" has wide impacts as under-done creates creates defects, downstream rework, and lost opportunity costs while over-done wastes time and resource and incurs its...

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Quality Time
02 October 07 06:50 PM | Earl Beede | 1 comment(s)

At Construx I teach both the Estimation seminar and the Advanced Quality seminar. One question I usually get during the Estimation seminar goes something like this, "How can I estimate how long quality will take?" Now this is a fascinating question in that it is so wrong and yet so important...

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