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		MattRogish on Aug 16, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Software Effort Estimation Considered Harmful Peopleware, DeMarco and Lister, pg 27-29, alluded to in the post. Namely: "The most surprising part of the 1985 Jeffery-Lawrence study appeared at the very end, when they investigated the productivity of 24 projects for which no estimates were prepared at all. These projects far outperformed all the others..." Study refers to Jeffery and Lawrence, 1985 study, to which I cannot find the raw data, unfortunately.

MattRogish on Aug 17, 2012 [–]

I found the study:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/01641212859...

Jeffrey, D.R. and M.J. Lawrence, "Managing Programming Productivity", The Journal of Systems and Software 5, (1985), 49-58.

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