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Original cost estimate in 1987 was $100 million and completion in 5 years. Actual completion in 2003 and cost $274 million. Mrs. Disney died at the age of 98 (1997), 10 years after her initial donation ($50 million) but before she could see her tribute completed.

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Original cost estimate in 1987 was $100 million and completion in 5 years. Actual completion in 2003 and cost $274 million. Mrs. Disney died at the age of 98 (1997), 10 years after her initial donation ($50 million) but before she could see her tribute completed.

Original cost estimate in 1957 was $7 million and completion date was 26 January 1963 The project was completed 10 years late and over-budget by more than 14 times.

Fixed Requirements

EstimatedResource

EstimatedTime

Guess Driven

Waterfall

changes because of

better understanding of requirement

ChangesBecause of market and technology

Measure twice, cut once

EstimatedFeatures

FixedResource

FixedTime

PriorityDriven

Agile

changes because of better

understanding of requirement

ChangesBecause of market

and technology

Less important features may

not be implemented

Less important features may be postponed

Big rocks in first

RequirementsDesign

DevelopTe

stDeploy

Do not finish entire layers by layersFinish a slice of cake

Requirements Design Development Testing Deploy

Design

Develop

TestIntegrate

Deployment

Design

Develop

TestIntegrate

Deployment Design

Develop

TestIntegrate

Deployment

Return $

Time

Why Agile has less risk and better return?

Myths about Agile

Test Driven Development

(code with test in mind)

User stories

Business value oriented, not tech

Pair programmingLess QA, Better quality, cross functional training

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