{"id":951,"date":"2007-07-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2007\/07\/12\/889\/"},"modified":"2007-07-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T22:00:00","slug":"889","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2007\/07\/12\/889\/","title":{"rendered":"Which theory fits the evidence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reginald Braithwaite &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.raganwald.com\/2007\/06\/which-theory-first-evidence.html\" title=\"raganwald: Which theory fits the evidence?\">Which theory fits the evidence?<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Theory P [= probabilistic] adherents believe that the normal case for software projects is that tasks are rarely completed exactly as estimated, but that as a project progresses, the aggregate variance from estimates falls.<\/p>\n<p>Theory D [= fully deterministic] adherents believe that the most important element of successful software development is <em>planning<\/em>. If a plan is properly constructed for the design and development of a software project, the actual implementation is virtually guaranteed.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reginald Braithwaite &#8211; Which theory fits the evidence?: &#8222;Theory P [= probabilistic] adherents believe that the normal case for software projects is that tasks are rarely completed exactly as estimated, but that as a project progresses, the aggregate variance from estimates falls. Theory D [= fully deterministic] adherents believe that the most important element of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}