Estimation

How Expectations Mess Up Project Estimates

by Josh July 17, 2010 Estimation

Glen Alleman recently pointed me to a paper by Jorge Aranda among other material on software estimation. I sat down and read Anchoring and Adjustment in Software Estimation and it was well worth my time. To cut to the chase, the subjects were tasked to give estimates for software tasks in a controlled manner, in [...]

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Project Estimation Methods

by Josh July 14, 2010 Estimation

Project estimation can be a headache for new project managers.  There are lots of opinions out there and not much that weighs various methods…rather you find people who feel strongly about one way or another.  To give a quick overview of some ideas and then call for your input, I recorded this video.  Please leave [...]

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Struggling with Cost Estimation? Check This Out.

by Josh June 3, 2010 Cost

Once upon a time, I was searching for some solid guidelines on cost estimation to improve the way my contract was doing it.

I found a few great resources

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Once Bitten, Twice Shy

by Josh May 1, 2010 Communication

“Mark, I expect you to perform at the level you committed to. There is no excuse for this, you are making our entire project team look bad. Your tasks were nowhere near the critical path before, but now you ARE the critical path.”

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Chaos and SCRUM

Thumbnail image for Chaos and SCRUM by jkinter February 11, 2010 Agile

Josh asked me to write about some of the challenges and obstacles that we face in our environment. In order to do that I should explain a little about that environment.

Over the past 36 months we have transformed ourselves…

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Estimating Effort: Part 5

by Bill Duncan June 10, 2009 Estimation

In this last article of the series, I’ll cover a potpourri of other estimating topics including dealing with poorly defined work and what to do when management thinks it should cost less or take less time. Dealing with Poorly Defined Work In order to introduce the basic concepts of effort estimating, we limited our discussion [...]

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