Archive for February 7th, 2008
The Iowa Theory
After reading Steve McConnell’s Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art, I called a friend to discuss my newfound insight. Like a child who first learns to write his name, I circled around the central object for no less than 15 minutes. Software is hard in a “different” way! We need statistical methods and mountains of historical data to estimate it properly! Heed these commands or perish! Now my friend is an architect, and she was not moved by this euphoria.
