Navigating the Minefield – Estimating Before Requirements are Complete

Carol Dekkers
Webinar Presentation: Wednesday October 21, 2020 at 12:00pm EDT

While cost estimation is challenging in hardware and manufacturing projects, software cost estimators face unprecedented obstacles when they are asked to estimate software development projects. Not only are these projects rife with uncertainty, requirements often shift, technologies change direction, and customers shift priorities – and that’s when they are based on solid software requirements!  But, what happens when you need to create an estimate before requirements are complete?  Learn how software cost estimators in leading organizations are responding to an ever-changing software development landscape and delivering estimates, that enable project success.

Carol Dekkers, PMP, CFPS (Fellow), P.Eng, CSM, is CEO of Quality Plus Technologies, Inc. and is the lead author of the forthcoming ICEAA Software Estimating Body of Knowledge (SCEBoK).  She specializes in working with companies who want to succeed with software measurement and functional size measurement. She is a co-author of several textbooks (The IT Measurement Compendium: Estimating and Benchmarking Success with Functional Size Measurement; Program management toolkit for software and systems development; Practical Software Project Estimation; and others,) and is a frequent speaker worldwide on estimating, measurement, ISO standards, project management, communication and quality. Ms Dekkers is a Past-president and former Director of Communications and Marketing for the International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG). She is also a U.S. expert on the USNB delegation to ISO/IEC SC7 software engineering standards.