Estimating software costs
by Capers Jones · first published 1998
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…Course. Good resources are the Standish Report: https://www.csus.edu/indiv/v/velianitis/161/chaosreport.pdf Also, anything that T. Capers Jones wrote. The most comprehensive one of these books is this: Estimating Software Costs: Bringing Realism to Estimating Hardcover ISBN-13978-0071483001 Many believe the official recognition of the crisis in developing software were the two NATO conferences in 1968 and 1969. See the Wikipedia…
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