Software project estimation: intelligent forecasting, project control, and client relationship management

摘要

More like a professional handbook than a scientific study, Dimitrov is a practitioner who works on projects as a scrum master and has experience in how to communicate with business people, software designers, and technical and software engineering staff, so to keep in hand the project in the case of complex situations. He refers to the typical tensions that occur between the client side and the service provider of the project in various contracting methods, for example, fixed-price and time and materials (T&M) contracts. In the introduction, the author declares: "Certainty or safety is a basic need." This is the central theme of the book. Traditional waterfall methods and agile and iterative methods (for example, Scrum) are also taken into account. The book concentrates on adequate project control over the strict bureaucratic approaches, as a bookkeeping of what has happened. The main aim is forecasting to underpin whether the project has progressed in a good direction or a bad one.