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Workshop on

Software Estimation Techniques - An Overview

Date: 29th Jun 2014 at Bangalore

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Overview:

Software Estimation is responsive to the widespread problems the software industry has experienced in creating meaningful effort, cost and schedule estimates. Estimation of project effort, duration and cost has posed major challenge to the software community in the past and even today. Software Estimation Techniques provides a comprehensive set of tips and heuristics that software developers, technical leads, and project managers can apply to create estimates for different types of projects (development, maintenance) and project life cycle models (Incremental, Agile type).

Who Should Attend:

Course Content:

Developers, Senior Developers, Designers, Technical / Test Leads, Program Managers, Project Managers, Senior Project Managers, Quality Managers, Quality leads / Engineers, Pre Sales personnel

* Why do we need to do estimation? When to do estimation?

* Overview of

* Analogy Based,

* Model Based and

* Metrics Based estimations.

* Overview of Various Estimation Techniques such as

* Expert Judgment Method- Delphi Wide Band Technique.

* Three Point estimation technique,

* Work break down structure based estimation.

* Function Point Estimation

* Use Case based Estimation

* Agile estimation using Story Points

* Understand the pros and cons of each technique

* Applicability to Business Applications, Client-Server, Porting & Maintenance projects etc.

What You'll Learn:

Participants will be able to know

* Various software estimation techniques used in projects.

* Get an overview of different Size, Effort & methodologies.

* Types of estimation techniques used in software, pros and cons and their applicability for various types of projects.

* On how to decide or choose an estimation technique to enhance their skills further in the form of in-depth training, coaching, in-depth study or application to projects.

* Fundamentals of estimation techniques and specific estimation challenges. It explains how to avoid common pitfalls.

Workshop take away:

* Training Course material.
* References and articles on the topic.

* Templates.

Note:

This workshop is focused for beginners to intermediate level. The participants would understand various estimation techniques, pros and cons and where to apply, which techniques. The participants might require an in-depth training to gain complete knowledge on specific technique if they have to use to estimate large scale software projects.

Faculty Profile: Niranjan N.V., M.Tech (IIT-B), PMI-ACP, CSP, CSM, SPC

Founder, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Program Consultant, Agile Coach & Trainer.

He has around 17 years of professional experience and 5 years as a consultant. Coach and Trainer in Agile - Scrum, Lean - Agile, XP, Kanban, Software Estimation, Project Management. He has extensive implementation experience in Agile - Scrum, Distributed Agile and Scaling Agile at Enterprise Level, FP Based Productivity framework Design and Measurement. He has been a panel speaker and moderator for Agile Best Practices Sessions and also delivered talks in conferences and webinars on Agile Methodologies.

His main interests are providing Consulting, Coaching, Mentoring and Training in Agile Methodologies, Transitioning to Agile Successfully, Scaling Agile at Enterprise level, Scrum Project Management, CMMI - Agile(Hybrid Process Model adoption), Software Estimation using Function Point Analysis.

* He is Certified Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Program Consultants and holds SAFe Program Consultant Certification (SPC) from Scaled Agile Academy

* He is an Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) from PMI, Certified Scrum Master (CSM)and holds Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP) certification from Scrum Alliance.

* He is one of the Core Executive Committee Members for Agile Leadership Network, Bengaluru, Chapter

He has Trained more than 2500 Participants and 50 Plus Organisations since 5.0 years, to various IT and Non IT companies in the areas of Agile Methodologies (Scrum Project Management), Agile Estimation and Planning, Agile Requirements Analysis, Software Estimation Techniques(Function Point Analysis) to various clients in India and USA. He has delivered training assignments in Infosys-Mysore, Yahoo, Oracle , GE & GE- Healthcare, Arbitron, MindTree, Mphasis, Hewlett Packard, CapGemini, Computer Associates, ITC Info Tech, Informatica, ABB etc.