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Many people use the phrase "project size" ambiguously, shifting the meaning from staff size to problem size even within a sentence. This causes much confusion, particularly because a small, sharp team often outperforms a large, average team. The relationship between problem, staff, and methodology size are discussed in the next section. System Criticality The damage from undetected defects. I currently classify criticality simply as one of loss of comfort, loss of discretionary money, loss of irreplaceable money, or loss of life. Other classifications are possible. Precision How much you care to say about a particular topic. Pi to one decimal place of precision is 3.1, to four decimal places is 3.1416. Source code contains more precision than a class diagram; assembler code contains more than its high-level source code. Some methodologies call for more precision earlier than others, according to the methodology author's wishes. Accuracy How correct you are when you speak about a topic. To say "Pi to one decimal place is 3.3" would be inaccurate ...»