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Software engineering

the pattern in which the range of error in software schedule estimates is wide early in a project and narrows as it proceeds, checked against project data.

In software engineering, cone of uncertainty refers to the pattern in which the range of error in software schedule estimates is wide early in a project and narrows as it proceeds, checked against project data. This meaning comes from Little (2006) in IEEE Software.[1]

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References

Little, T. (2006). Schedule estimation and uncertainty surrounding the cone of uncertainty. IEEE Software, 23(3), 48-54. https://doi.org/10.1109/ms.2006.82

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