About This Training Course

Good judgment comes from experience...

... and experience comes from bad judgment.

This is especially true for those charged with the difficulties of 'guesstimation' of software development projects where cost and duration estimates early in a project's life cycle can often underpin later budget 'overruns', unmet deadlines, bickering team members and dissatisfied clients.

This overview Estimation Using Software Metrics Training Course will provide you with management strategies and industry-standard practical tools to create, manage, track and communicate estimates, from early specification, team constitution and budget discussions through to Post-Implementation reviews. The techniques learned here are closely coupled to scope management, which is reviewed in the context of the estimation process.

The Estimation Using Software Metrics Training Course has been developed in association with the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group (ISBSG) and includes material from the International Function Point User's Group (IFPUG), two of the leading organisations in the expanding field of software metrics. We draw on industry experience of what works and what doesn't, as well as actual estimating experiences from the completed projects contained in the ISBSG software project repository.

Subjects Covered

This Estimation Using Software Metrics Training Course covers the following subjects:

• Estimation Techniques
• Bottom up project estimation
• Analogy
• Comparison
• Equations
• Function Point Analysis (IFPUG & COSMIC-FFP)
• Wide-band Delphi

• Scope Management
• Requirement traps
• Tying estimates to scope
• Reporting Templates

• Function Point Analysis
• Application Boundary
• Data in motion: Transactions
• Data at rest: Files
• Evaluating processing complexity
• Unadjusted Function Point Count
• Environment complexity: General System Characteristics
• Adjusted Function Point Count
• Whole-of-Project estimates

• Estimation Using FPA (IFPUG)
• Estimation Context
• Duration & Team Size
• Project Delivery Rate
• Uncertainty Factor
• Estimation Validation

• Overview the Software Metrics Discipline
• History and Current Issues Overview of Software Metrics
• International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG)
• International Software Benchmarking Standards Group (ISBSG)
• Emerging Method Overview - COSMIC-Full Function Points

Training Course Outcomes

At the end of this Estimation Using Software Metrics Training Course participants will be able to:

• Understand and apply the concept of Function Point Analysis (IFPUG)
• Understand the strengths and weaknesses of various formal approaches to the estimation process, including: Analogy, Comparison, Equations, Function Point Analysis (IFPUG & COSMIC-FFP), Wide-band Delphi, Project Histories, and Industry Experience
• Understand how to apply those approaches along with the non-size factors that impact on estimates
• Understand techniques for managing scope, time or cost compression demands
• Apply FPA to Project Estimation and Scope Management

Prerequisites

To gain the most from this Estimation Using Software Metrics Training Course, participants should have fundamental understanding of:


• Project Management
• Software Engineering Processes
• Requirements Specification

Other Information

Deliverable material for this Estimation Using Software Metrics Training Course includes:

• Certificate of Accomplishment
• Professionally printed student notes and exercises

In addition, students are encouraged to bring their own USB drive to save worked solutions/tools, plus a comprehensive bibliography of additional reference material. (CD available if this is a problem)

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