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Author: Geri Schneider Winters
Alan Thompson wrote recently to ask, “How do we do a better job of estimating how long it will take to gather requirements?”
This is a question that often comes up, so I want to share my answer with all of you.
The bad news is that there is no good way to estimate [...]

Author: Geri Schneider Winters
Almost every project will have to deal with requirements that change. I can imagine some maintenance type projects that are so well defined (fix this list of bugs) that there are no requirements changes for the lifetime of the project. Or perhaps the project is so short (a couple of hours) that [...]