FastEDUCATION™ Seminar
Seminar: Software Estimation
Duration: 3 hours
Expected Audience: Targeted for leaders and performers who build
software, this session presents concepts and methods for better estimation of
software sizes, efforts, costs, and durations.Â
Objectives:
- Briefly Review PM Fundamentals
- Identify who is/should be a project sponsor in the organization’s
activities
- Understand the roles and expectations of the Project Sponsor
- Describe duties of a project sponsor in various phases of a project
life cycle
- Learn how to handle certain specific situations a sponsor might
face
Format: Presentation / discussion in groups of 10-20.
Outline:
- Introduction
- Outline of the Seminar
- Materials Tour
- Rationale
- Overview of Estimating
- Why so hard?
- Experiences with estimating
- Start with a Good Work Breakdown Structure
- Review of WBS creation
- Estimating Methods
- Algorithmic models
- Analogy
- Parkinson
- Expert Judgment
- Top-Down
- Bottom-Up
- Estimating Size
- Considering Reuse
- Wideband Delphi
- Estimating Effort
- COCOMO
- Function Points
- Estimating Schedule
- Duration vs. Effort
- Converting effort estimates to cost estimates
- Negotiating to reach an acceptable estimate
- Summary & Session Wrap-up
Seminar Materials:
- Presentation matter
- Seminar notebook
