This course is developed for practitioners and managers who are looking for information needed to fully integrate the estimation practices into the software development and maintenance process. The estimation practice covers practical methods, techniques, and tools used for an effective estimation process. The course provides workshops that would enable the participants to estimate software size, effort, cost and schedule. The course also offers information on the industry best practices that will help achieve the goals of an effective estimation program in your organization.
Who should attend?
- Project Managers
- Quality Assurance Managers
- Software Process Engineers
- Software Architects
- Software Engineers
Pre-requisites:
- Knowledge of software engineering and/or management
Course Objectives:
- Understand the nature and importance of estimation
- Differentiate the various approaches to estimation
- Identify tools use in estimation
- Converting effort estimates to duration estimates
- Define cost estimation
- Enumerate types of reserves
- Define cost budgeting
- Prepare a project budget