Engineering · Engineering Practice & Failure
A topic within Engineering Practice & Failure, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Engineering.
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United States Government Accountability Office
Codifies twelve steps for a defensible program cost estimate and argues most government engineering program overruns trace to a specific, identifiable step skipped or done badly, not to bad luck.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Argues that a credible engineering cost estimate needs the same rigour as the engineering itself — documented assumptions, an explicit basis of estimate, and a stated uncertainty range — and that an estimate without these is a guess dressed as a number.
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