Estimation Techniques

As promised, I am sharing the content on Estimation and Sizing techniques. I recently used the same set of slides for a corporate training as well. The slides are structured into multiple sections and include the following topics:

1. Estimation Overview – Challenges and problems in estimation
2. Software sizing techniques – Lines of Code, Function Points
3. Function Points – The complete process guidelines and steps
4. Estimation Approaches – Risk Context, Metrics Based, WBS, Iterative approaches
5. Estimation Methods
1. Wide Band Delphi
2. Percentage of Work
3. Use Case Method & Use Case Points
4. Test Point Analysis
6. Suggested guidelines for good estimates

You can download the document in PDF format from the link HERE. Please feel free to get in touch in case you want additional resources or articles which I referred while preparing this. Also drop in a line if you wish to have this training done for your group or organization.

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