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Our Spotlight this month is an
Article by Sheila Dennis and David Herron, "Why Can't
We Estimate Better?"
Everyone agrees that software estimating
continues to be an ongoing problem for IT managers. Sometimes
there is a perception that an estimation model is a black box
with a magic process from which
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SpamCast No.
29 Murali Chemuturi talks
on  the topic of
estimation.
Mr.
Chemuturi has over thirty four years of total experience
out of which about fourteen years have been spent in the
field of information technology. He has produced
numerous publications and he is the author of an
upcoming book on estimation.
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