Estimates Uncertainties Unknown  Project development costs  Project development schedules  Team size  Amount of software to be developed  Hardware resources

Estimates Estimation techniques Historical data  Stepwise Estimation Counting product features  Functional point Analysis Statistical application Construction Cost Model COCOMO

Estimates Stepwise Estimation Divides a large problem into numerous smaller problems. The basic approach decomposes the project into well-defined components, then to iterate step-by-step until only small units remain, which can be easily estimated.

Estimates Stepwise Estimation Project Decomposition  Off-the-shelf components  Full-experience components  Partial-experience components  New development

Estimates Estimating New Development Prototype methods Statistical methods

Estimates Pre-Launch Charter Approval Size Estimates (Macro) +/- 35% range Launch Plan Approval Task-based Estimates +/- 15% range Execute Project Schedule +/- 10% range

Estimates Sizing techniques /models Used to generate high-level effort, duration, and cost projections at a point when little is known about the project  Effort Distribution Models (EDM)  Deliverables-Based Estimates  Functional Point Estimating Models Used for new development mostly

Estimates EDM

Estimation (EDM)

Converting effort hours into estimate durations.  Convert the estimated phase effort hours to work months by dividing the total hours by the average production hours per month per person. 6.5 work-hours per day and 17.5 work-days per month  Determine the Optimal Full-time Equivalent (OFTE) team members for each phase by taking the square root of the work months computed above  Compute the estimated phase duration as Phase duration = work months / OFTE  Develop a phase-base Gantt – depict the order of phase execution and appropriate phase overlaps and determine the duration estimate in terms of work-days, works weeks, or work-months. Problems  Effort for user participation are usually not included  A full-time PM for a 7 FTE team member. That is one FTE will consume 15% of PM’s time.

Estimation (EDM)

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Estimation (EDM) When to use EDM Medium to large projects Projects based on a well defined lifecycle methodology Major enhancements

Size Estimate (Deliverables-based) Deliverables-based estimates Project description Project phases Project deliverables  List of deliverables by phases  Descriptions of deliverables Resource assumptions  Number of resources, skill levels, percentage assignment Deliverable estimates (effort, cost, duration) Estimate project duration

Size Estimate (Deliverables-based) Deliverables Sample list Approved vendor Data conversion plan Data definitions, data dictionary, etc Development strategy Disaster recovery plan Program specifications Regression test data Risk analysis Test plan, test data, etc Usability testing Training

Size Estimate (Functional Point) Functional Point Estimate Used to size size system application from an end- user perspective.  From business or logical point of view  Independent of hardware, programming language, techniques, and tools used to developed the final system  A functional point is defined as one end-user business function.  The amount of functionalities in the project determines the project problems’ size.

Size Estimate (Functional Point) FPA Problems Any functional point based estimate developed prior to the end of logical design are questionable FPA does not often consider non-business features of the systems e.g.  Walk-throughs, inspections, team training, PM, etc Converting FP estimates into project duration and schedules can produce dubious results and lead to poorly defined plans

Size Estimate (COCOMO model) COCOMO model Level of personnel  PL = ƒ (∑EP,N, KSLOC) Level of complexity  SEM = class of complexity * (KSLOC) Project size Reliability factor Development environment

Task-based Estimate Task-based estimates Task effort  The number of work hours needed to complete a given task. It depends on task complexity and skill of the person assigned to the task Task Duration  Elapsed time needed to complete a given task. Measured in days, weeks, or months.

Task-based Estimate Getting a reliable task-based estimate Ask the person to whom the task is assigned to estimate its duration The PM estimates the duration of various tasks, keeping in mind the team skill, knowledge, interruptions, and productivity environment The PM gathers a representative group of team members and they collectively estimate task effort and/or duration Use historical data from a similar project.