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Software Estimation - Building Your Project
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Software estimation is process that takes all the disparate pieces of data, pours them all into a pot, and then predicts the future. Learn more about this topic on the blog.
Recent Posts
Searching For A Layman’s Explanation of Parametric Modeling
For a few years, CBS has been running a television show called Numb3rs. The premise is the standard take off on the brothers-solving-mysteries cliché that has been around since at least the Hardy Boys. Granted, Numbers has a couple of differences â€...
Software Estimation and Controlled Risk
I’ve written before on the predictive nature of estimation software. Using software estimation products as project management software can help show you aspects of your project which you haven’t accounted for, particularly things like ris...
A Tale of Two Mirrors
This is a blog post by none-other than Dan Galorath, the Chief Architect for the SEER-SEM software. He talks about the difference between the types of project management software and sheds some light on not only the various differences that exist, bu...
Applying Earned Value Management to Software Intensive Programs
By Robert P Hunt (Galorath Incorporated), Paul J. Solomon (Performance-Based Earned Value), and Dan Galorath (Galorath Incorporated) Often, traditional earned value approaches do not deal sufficiently with the idiosyncrasies of software intensive p...
Packaged Applications – The Hidden Costs of Snake-Oil
Packaged Applications - The Hidden Costs of Snake-Oil By David DeWitt Most of us remember the dubious “doctor” in Huckleberry Finn who proclaims to have the cure for any malady. From the back of the crowd his shill would loudly proclaim...

