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Analogous and Parametric Estimating

MPUG

Microsoft Project, in its various releases (i.e., Online desktop, 2019, 2016, etc.), can become an accurate estimating tool for top-down (Analogous) and bottom-up (Parametric) estimating. During planning, “Assignment Units” needs to be fixed or changed to avoid Microsoft Project calculating “Peak” units.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. requires making estimates) ? Planning, Tracking, and Reducing Complex Project’s Value at Risk,” Tyson R. Estimation of Long?Term 2128, International Technical Paper , 2016.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. requires making estimates) ? Estimation of Long?Term

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2020 Challenges and Trends in Construction

Epicflow Blog

Virtual and Augmented Reality in Construction: Customers’ Satisfaction, Workers’ Safety, and Better Project Management Augmented and virtual reality are widely used in many industries, and lately have become quite popular with construction companies. . They use VR to let their potential customers see the project and estimate it.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . If your project has no uncertainty, there is no need to estimate. Turns out in the real world there is no such project. All estimates have precision and accuracy. Accuracy - how close is the estimate to the actual value?

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Episode 185 – Redefining Project Success through Sustainable Project Management

Velociteach

So this is back in like 2016 or so. The Scope of this project was massive. Each side of the pyramid is 767 ft long, it’s as tall as a 40 story building, and it has an estimated 2.5 Estimates put the workforce at up to 40,000 people at the height of construction. And as for cost! So was this project a success?

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian