Recent Posts Tagged With 'estimates'

• Applying Earned Value Management to Software Intensive Programs

  Posted on Monday April 20th, 2009 at 10:42 in Software, budget, risk, process, manufacturing, baseline, estimates, estimation, earned value, earned value management, software estimation, galorath

  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...

• Welcome to the Baseline

  Posted on Tuesday January 27th, 2009 at 16:09 in budget, baseline, estimates, whittle, software estimation, galorath, software productivity, initial data collection, exact estimate

  So, you’ve checked over all of your initial data, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary. You’ve double checked with the client and you know exactly what they think that they want. And you’ve plugged all of that carefully measured d...

• A Picture is Emerging

  Posted on Saturday December 6th, 2008 at 22:00 in foss, estimates, software package, estimation, cots, software estimating, software estimation, sloc, cots software, code solutions, source lines

  Keeping up with the idea that we’re doing software estimating to create a software package, let’s go ahead and give a long look at our intended project. The first question you’re going to have to ask yourself is how big is this proj...

• On Data Collection and the Moon

  Posted on Friday November 14th, 2008 at 21:41 in process, manufacturing, foundation, estimates, rocket scientists, software estimation, initial data collection, project estimates

  There’s a popular cliché amongst rocket scientists “a launch that is off by one degree will miss the moon by miles.” Okay, so maybe the authenticity of that phrase is leaves a lot to be desired, but the spirit of the statement – ...

• How to Best Use Software Estimation – Part 1

  Posted on Monday October 13th, 2008 at 08:57 in process, basics, foundation, estimates, part 1, software estimation, project proceeds

  There’s a running gag between myself and a few of my friends and associates – if possible, how much information would you cede over to software estimation? Theoretically, software that was smart enough, and fed enough information could serve ...

• Next qestion, how does it work?

  Posted on Monday September 22nd, 2008 at 09:43 in sample, census, estimates, software estimation, sample survey, software estimation tool, steve mcconnel, survey. black art

  Here lies the difficult question. How does software estimation actually work? Conceptually speaking its simple, in practice however, that’s where things become more difficult. I’m sure some of you have a book somewhere by a fellow named Steve McC...