Express Seminar: Expert Judgment Estimation

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Express Seminar: Expert Judgment Estimation

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5/4/2010 Earl Beede ($299)	register now
Instructor-led online seminar, 3 hours

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course overview

This highly interactive online seminar provides concrete ways to improve individual software estimates based on expert judgment. You will learn how to transform the widely misused estimation practice of "judgment" into a usable and consistent estimation approach. This seminar is a focused look at one of the estimation practices in Construx's Software Estimation in Depth seminar using practices drawn from the best selling book Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art, by Steve McConnell. THREE HOURS - 10 AM to 1 PM PACIFIC. Online only.

who should attend

This seminar will be useful to project managers, product managers, program managers, technical leads, software engineers, developers, and anyone else who wants to learn how to effectively perform individual expert judgment estimates.

the seminar includes the following topics

Defining expert judgment
Off-the-cuff estimates
Developer optimism
Accuracy vs. Precision
T-Shirt sizing
Estimate variability
Structured group review techniques
Estimate decomposition
Work patterns and estimation
Estimation checklists
Expert judgment and other estimation techniques

available instructors

Earl Beede, Steve Tockey, Steve McConnell, Jerry Deville, Matt Peloquin

pmi information

Scope Management, Time Management, Cost Management 3 PDU

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