Recent Posts Tagged With 'estimation'

• 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...

• Packaged Applications – The Hidden Costs of Snake-Oil

  Posted on Sunday March 29th, 2009 at 10:15 in google, process, snake oil, supply chain management, huckleberry finn, estimation, manufacturing companies, business requirements, software estimation, david dewitt

  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...

• 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...