A leading executive was once asked what single characteristic was most important when selecting a project manager. His response: “a person with the ability to know what will go wrong before it actually does.” We might add: “and the courage to estimate when the future is cloudy.”

Estimation of resources, cost, and schedule for a software development effort requires experience, access to good historical information, and the courage to commit to quantitative measures when qualitative data are all that exist. Estimation carries inherent risk and it is this risk that leads to uncertainty.

Project complexity has a strong effect on uncertainty that is inherent in planning. Complexity, however, is a relative measure that is affected by familiarity with past effort.

_{R.S. Pressman. Software engineering. 4th edition, McGraw-Hill (with adaptations).}

Based on the text above, judge the items below.

A leading executive was once asked what single characteristic was most important when selecting a project manager. His response: “a person with the ability to know what will go wrong before it actually does.” We might add: “and the courage to estimate when the future is cloudy.”

Estimation of resources, cost, and schedule for a software development effort requires experience, access to good historical information, and the courage to commit to quantitative measures when qualitative data are all that exist. Estimation carries inherent risk and it is this risk that leads to uncertainty.

Project complexity has a strong effect on uncertainty that is inherent in planning. Complexity, however, is a relative measure that is affected by familiarity with past effort.

_{R.S. Pressman. Software engineering. 4th edition, McGraw-Hill (with adaptations).}

Based on the text above, judge the items below.

A leading executive was once asked what single characteristic was most important when selecting a project manager. His response: “a person with the ability to know what will go wrong before it actually does.” We might add: “and the courage to estimate when the future is cloudy.”

Estimation of resources, cost, and schedule for a software development effort requires experience, access to good historical information, and the courage to commit to quantitative measures when qualitative data are all that exist. Estimation carries inherent risk and it is this risk that leads to uncertainty.

Project complexity has a strong effect on uncertainty that is inherent in planning. Complexity, however, is a relative measure that is affected by familiarity with past effort.

_{R.S. Pressman. Software engineering. 4th edition, McGraw-Hill (with adaptations).}

Based on the text above, judge the items below.

A leading executive was once asked what single characteristic was most important when selecting a project manager. His response: “a person with the ability to know what will go wrong before it actually does.” We might add: “and the courage to estimate when the future is cloudy.”

Estimation of resources, cost, and schedule for a software development effort requires experience, access to good historical information, and the courage to commit to quantitative measures when qualitative data are all that exist. Estimation carries inherent risk and it is this risk that leads to uncertainty.

Project complexity has a strong effect on uncertainty that is inherent in planning. Complexity, however, is a relative measure that is affected by familiarity with past effort.

_{R.S. Pressman. Software engineering. 4th edition, McGraw-Hill (with adaptations).}

Based on the text above, judge the items below.

A leading executive was once asked what single characteristic was most important when selecting a project manager. His response: “a person with the ability to know what will go wrong before it actually does.” We might add: “and the courage to estimate when the future is cloudy.”

Estimation of resources, cost, and schedule for a software development effort requires experience, access to good historical information, and the courage to commit to quantitative measures when qualitative data are all that exist. Estimation carries inherent risk and it is this risk that leads to uncertainty.

Project complexity has a strong effect on uncertainty that is inherent in planning. Complexity, however, is a relative measure that is affected by familiarity with past effort.

_{R.S. Pressman. Software engineering. 4th edition, McGraw-Hill (with adaptations).}

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Computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) is a broad term referring to utopian factories of the future in which computers are integrated into all aspects of design, production, and control. As such, CIM technology encompasses hardware, software, and systems that support the design and manufacture of mechanical devices.

The primary goal of CIM is to increase the flexibility of the production line to support faster response to changing market demands. Related goals of CIM systems are to achieve higher product quality, smaller lot sizes (approaching one), and reduced work-in-process inventory. Early efforts to realize CIM systems were driven by a naive push for labor reduction; more recent motivations include desires for improvement in product quality and response time.

Idem, ibidem (with adaptations).

From the text above, it can be deduced that CIM

Computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) is a broad term referring to utopian factories of the future in which computers are integrated into all aspects of design, production, and control. As such, CIM technology encompasses hardware, software, and systems that support the design and manufacture of mechanical devices.

The primary goal of CIM is to increase the flexibility of the production line to support faster response to changing market demands. Related goals of CIM systems are to achieve higher product quality, smaller lot sizes (approaching one), and reduced work-in-process inventory. Early efforts to realize CIM systems were driven by a naive push for labor reduction; more recent motivations include desires for improvement in product quality and response time.

Idem, ibidem (with adaptations).

From the text above, it can be deduced that CIM

Computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) is a broad term referring to utopian factories of the future in which computers are integrated into all aspects of design, production, and control. As such, CIM technology encompasses hardware, software, and systems that support the design and manufacture of mechanical devices.

The primary goal of CIM is to increase the flexibility of the production line to support faster response to changing market demands. Related goals of CIM systems are to achieve higher product quality, smaller lot sizes (approaching one), and reduced work-in-process inventory. Early efforts to realize CIM systems were driven by a naive push for labor reduction; more recent motivations include desires for improvement in product quality and response time.

Idem, ibidem (with adaptations).

From the text above, it can be deduced that CIM

Computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) is a broad term referring to utopian factories of the future in which computers are integrated into all aspects of design, production, and control. As such, CIM technology encompasses hardware, software, and systems that support the design and manufacture of mechanical devices.

The primary goal of CIM is to increase the flexibility of the production line to support faster response to changing market demands. Related goals of CIM systems are to achieve higher product quality, smaller lot sizes (approaching one), and reduced work-in-process inventory. Early efforts to realize CIM systems were driven by a naive push for labor reduction; more recent motivations include desires for improvement in product quality and response time.

Idem, ibidem (with adaptations).

From the text above, it can be deduced that CIM