“The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.” YearsThreeCostGradesThree YearsFifthArithmeticUnsuccessfulFifth Grade Author:Norman Ralph Augustine
“Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.” TwoProblemLastsLawNumbersCostPercentPerformancesThirds Author:Norman Ralph Augustine
“It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.” LiteratureAchieveCostTenIncreaseFactorsAccomplishedExpensiveItemsDegradationAggravationUncommonUnreliability Author:Norman Ralph Augustine
