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In this chapter we look at simplicity and explore why it is good to keep things simple. We will go over a few concepts that will allow us to view complex matter through simplified but correct models.
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It is important to distinguish between the portion of planning, which takes care of the schedule, and project planning in general. Project planning encompasses a diverse set of business activities which can be immensely interesting to many people. We are not talking about that planning here, and we will limit ourselves to discussing the part of it which deals with estimation, forecasting, and scheduling.
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Fred Brooks, “No Silver Bullet — Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering,” Proceedings of the IFIP Tenth World Computing Conference, H.-J. Kugler, ed., Elsevier Science B.V. Amsterdam, NL (1986): 1069-76.
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Many people these days take pride in emulating Steve Jobs and emit ridiculously succinct messages (in emails or otherwise), only to then have other people perform inordinate amount of juggling and mental trickery before finally arriving at the “correct” rendition of the intent in the commanding message. We need to be careful when pretending to be Steve Jobs!
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Dimitrov, D. (2020). The Role of Simplification. In: Software Project Estimation. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5025-9_3
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