Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | about this site Predicting Iterative Projects (20 Oct 2003) Despite the fact that iterative approaches to software development are increasingly used, most of the people paying for MIS software still have an expectation that we should be able to tell them, before coding starts, whats it going to do, whats it going to cost, and whens it going to be ready? This column shows why thats an unattainable expectation and corrects the misleading product-lifecycle-model for estimating. Article URL: http://www.stickyminds.com/sitewide.asp?Function=DETAILSIDX&ObjectId=6781 Read 170 more articles from Sticky Minds sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Random Image Rotation This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy