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How to Calculate Releases

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How to Calculate Releases TL;DR Once modern software projects are underway, realistic completion dates or release content can be predicted by analyzing the data contained in the issue tracker. Many organizations still fail to do this correctly and are caught off guard when they suddenly find themselves over time and over budget. The key is to realize, that much or often most of the remaining work is usually not just unestimated. It is not even known. Our method and tools provide you with calculations for all of these unknowns. While individual work items are subject to judgment and variation, the statistical law of large numbers makes it sound for the total work. You can use this to predict the end date in a fixed scope process or, vice versa, the delivered scope in a fixed date process. Unnecessary surprises Many common approaches attempt to assess whether a running development project is still on track. Financial project controlling for example compares plan versus ...