Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Software Project Estimation Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Software Project Estimation related project.
Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.
The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Software Project Estimation specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the Software Project Estimation Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.
Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…
- Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation
Then find your goals...
STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track
Featuring 997 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Software Project Estimation improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 997 standard requirements:
- Which is the process of continuously improving and detailing a plan as more detailed and specific information and more accurate estimates become available as the project progresses?
- Does the cost estimate against which the projects performance is being measured still look achievable and is the project still affordable?
- Do you require a cost estimate for changing host providers during the execution of the project, after the initial solution is deployed?
- Does the vendor provide and support the traditional project planning and estimation requirements of the user base of project managers?
- What is the estimated annual cost in hard dollars of maintaining and supporting current project management systems and interfaces?
- Do contracting organizations have formal processes for the estimation of the resources involved in contracted software projects?
- Is the expectation that the vendor will replace all equipment during the contract term or is this just for estimation purposes?
- Does this type of process typically involve significant changes to cost estimates for large software projects over time?
- Is it anticipated that this would be full time work or is there an estimate of hours involved in completing the project?
- Is it necessarily a bad thing that seemingly mechanical estimation processes are strongly affected by expert judgment?
Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:
- The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Software Project Estimation book in PDF containing 997 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your Software Project Estimation self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:
- The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Software Project Estimation Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Software Project Estimation areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
- Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
- Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Software Project Estimation Self-Assessment
- Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results
- Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:
STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy
The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Software Project Estimation projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step Software Project Estimation Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Software Project Estimation project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- Probability and Impact Assessment: Do requirements put excessive performance constraints on the product?
- Initiating Process Group: Were sponsors and decision makers available when needed outside regularly scheduled meetings?
- Requirements Management Plan: To see if a requirement statement is sufficiently well-defined, read it from the developers perspective. Mentally add the phrase, call me when youre done to the end of the requirement and see if that makes you nervous. In other words, would you need additional clarification from the author to understand the requirement well enough to design and implement it?
- Change Request: Are there requirements attributes that can discriminate between high and low reliability?
- Risk Audit: Does your organization have an up-to-date constitution?
- Human Resource Management Plan: Is the steering committee active in Software Project Estimation project oversight?
- Activity Duration Estimates: Consider the history of modern quality management. How have experts such as Deming, Juran, Crosby, and Taguchi affected the quality movement and todays use of Six Sigma?
- Stakeholder Management Plan: How are the overall Software Project Estimation project development processes to be undertaken to produce the Software Project Estimation project outputs?
- Quality Metrics: Have alternatives been defined in the event that failure occurs?
- Stakeholder Management Plan: Is the Software Project Estimation project sponsor clearly communicating the business case or rationale for why this Software Project Estimation project is needed?
Step-by-step and complete Software Project Estimation Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 Software Project Estimation project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 Software Project Estimation project Management Plan
- 2.2 Scope Management Plan
- 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
- 2.4 Requirements Documentation
- 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
- 2.6 Software Project Estimation project Scope Statement
- 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log
- 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure
- 2.9 WBS Dictionary
- 2.10 Schedule Management Plan
- 2.11 Activity List
- 2.12 Activity Attributes
- 2.13 Milestone List
- 2.14 Network Diagram
- 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements
- 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure
- 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates
- 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet
- 2.19 Software Project Estimation project Schedule
- 2.20 Cost Management Plan
- 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates
- 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet
- 2.23 Cost Baseline
- 2.24 Quality Management Plan
- 2.25 Quality Metrics
- 2.26 Process Improvement Plan
- 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix
- 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities
- 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan
- 2.30 Communications Management Plan
- 2.31 Risk Management Plan
- 2.32 Risk Register
- 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment
- 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix
- 2.35 Risk Data Sheet
- 2.36 Procurement Management Plan
- 2.37 Source Selection Criteria
- 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan
- 2.39 Change Management Plan
3.0 Executing Process Group:
- 3.1 Team Member Status Report
- 3.2 Change Request
- 3.3 Change Log
- 3.4 Decision Log
- 3.5 Quality Audit
- 3.6 Team Directory
- 3.7 Team Operating Agreement
- 3.8 Team Performance Assessment
- 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
- 3.10 Issue Log
4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:
- 4.1 Software Project Estimation project Performance Report
- 4.2 Variance Analysis
- 4.3 Earned Value Status
- 4.4 Risk Audit
- 4.5 Contractor Status Report
- 4.6 Formal Acceptance
5.0 Closing Process Group:
- 5.1 Procurement Audit
- 5.2 Contract Close-Out
- 5.3 Software Project Estimation project or Phase Close-Out
- 5.4 Lessons Learned
Results
With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Software Project Estimation project with this in-depth Software Project Estimation Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:
- Diagnose Software Project Estimation projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
- Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals
- Integrate recent advances in Software Project Estimation and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines
Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.
Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'
This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Software Project Estimation investments work better.
This Software Project Estimation All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.
Includes lifetime updates
Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.
