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Dan Galorath on Estimating Blog
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Dan Galorath on Estimating Blog. Understanding project management needs though Estimation, Analysis, Planning, and Control.
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.
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IT Costs Per Transaction Provide Valuable ROI Basis
Dan Galorath on Estimating Blog | November 19th 2009 by Galorath
Here was a recent post on the Harvard Business Blog on understanding the transaction costs of IT. According to the blog: the IT cost per equity trade is approximately $0.17 the IT cost per hospital bed is $65 per patient the IT cost per truckin read more
Controlling Software Projects: Development Is Only Job One: Chica…
Dan Galorath on Estimating Blog | November 9th 2009 by Galorath
Dan will be speaking at the Chi10 stecago SPIN on November 12, 2009 on the topic of controlling software projects. Estimation, planning, control, metrics, and maintenance fo a total ownership cost view wil be discussed. The presentation is here: Ch read more
Why Projects Fail From A Technical and Process Viewpoint
Dan Galorath on Estimating Blog | November 2nd 2009 by Galorath
There was an interesting article in SDtimes The article claims that “Most cases of failure that I have seen have been in two categories: imagination and process,” qouting Grady Booch, chief scientist of software engineering at IBM Resea read more
Dan Galorath Presentation at SEER / Tracer Seminar In Tysons Corn…
Dan Galorath on Estimating Blog | November 2nd 2009 by Galorath
It was exciting to participate in a seminar with Computer Aid and their ITMPI recently. Here we discussed concepts of software management and how Galorath’s SEER with project estimation, planning and control supports CAI’s Tracer produc read more
Tongue In Cheek Definition of Cost Analysis
Dan Galorath on Estimating Blog | October 22nd 2009 by Galorath
From an Aerospace Corporation course: “The art of estimating the cost of acquisitions. It involves using incomplete, inaccurate, and changing data for an outmoded and ineffective system to derive a precise cost of purchasing an unknown quanti read more
Infrastructure Technoogy (IT) and CIO Decisions
How to get rid of a trojan virus, the quick and easy way. | October 14th 2009 by Justin
How does the Chief Information Officer (CIO) make the right decision regarding IT? Do they simply just keep buying every bell and whistle that comes out of the computer world or do they have a way to make intelligent decisions that are for their comp read more
Estimating the Effort, Cost & Schedule of Net Centric Systems
Dan Galorath on Estimating Blog | October 5th 2009 by Galorath
I just got a peek at a draft briefing for this week’s SEER seminar in El Segundo encompassing using SEER-IT for hardware oriented systems such as Net Centric systems. The bottom line is SEER provides full estimating capabilities for such syst read more
Agile Development Mature Scrum
Dan Galorath on Estimating Blog | September 21st 2009 by Galorath
Thanks to Tom Gilb for the article on a CMMI level 5 company that implemented Agile . I think the most interesting experiences documented in the paper are ”Project Planning in CMMI is a disciplined and comprehensive sprint zero” R read more
SEER Users Seminar In EL Segundo, October 8, 2009
Dan Galorath on Estimating Blog | September 21st 2009 by Galorath
I just had the opportunity to review the agenda for this one day, no-cost seminar. I was very impressed. Be sure to sign-up today if you can make it. Combining Process Enforcement and SEER to Ensure Project Success by Bob Lawhorn, Computer Aid read more
Top 10 Reasons For Poor Cost Performance in Aerospace & Defen…
Dan Galorath on Estimating Blog | September 21st 2009 by Galorath
From Janes ” Intelligence and Insight You Can Trust.. A top 10 list of reasons for poor cost performance: Unsound assumptions Poor definition of requirements –cost baseline w/o credibility Series of program plans de’jour Assuming benefits read more
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Dan Galorath Presentation at SEER / Tracer Seminar In Tysons Corner October 2009
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Joint Confidence Level Solution By Galorath
Congratulations to Galorath’s Chris Hutchings and Denton Tarbet and MCR’s Steve Book for their approach to NASA’s joint probability challenge. Chris worked all weekend and had it…
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Galorath Vision of Parametrics Over The Next 20 Years (Published 2004)
We have seen great strides in the acceptance of parametric modeling such as SEER over the past 5 years. I published the following vision in a keynote address, originally in 2004. And much of this…
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Galorath Article “Applying Earned Value Management To Software Intensive Programs Part 2
For paper with figures see Applying Earned Value Management To Software Intensive Programs Final Establishing a Process for Requirements Definition and Developing the Technical, Cost and Schedule Base…
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Galorath Article “applying Earned Value Management To Software Intensive Programs Part 1
The new Galorath paper on performance based earned value went live on the DACS site today. It is so important to have viable estimates as the basis of plans for earned value to be valuable. For pa…
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When it comes to working with your company to provide a tool for Estimating Software Projects that does exactly what you want, nobody does it better than Galorath.com. You know how important it is hav…
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Galorath at SEPG, San Jose
I just saw a press release that went out regarding Galorath Incorporated at the Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) conference in San Jose. I am heading there today myself. Here is the press…
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