Software Estimation – Practices and Techniques
Business Analysis in Practice
- Instructor-led, Online
- Course Category: Business Analysis, Product Management, Agile Methods
GBP
45
Instructor-led, Online
Duration: 2 hours
Course Code: TXV-BAP-4536
Skill Level: Intermediate
Software Estimation – Practices and Techniques
Overview
“Can you give me a ball-park estimate?” – most of us working in the IT industry would have come across this familiar question at least once, if not more. Estimation does play a vital role in the success of software development project, whether we are building a digital product, web site, web application, mobile app, cloud platform or ERP implementation. Even before we set off with the actual work, estimates give an indication of the size, effort, time and money required to design, develop, test and deploy the product. To learn about the approaches, techniques and tools used in software estimation, enrol in TEXAVI’s Software Estimation – Practices and Techniques course now!
Who can attend?
- Anybody with or without work experience
- IT professionals (eg., Developers, testers) considering a move to BA role
- Non-IT people who want to learn IT skills thinking of a career switch
- Graduates and university students who aspire to get into IT industry
- Students who have just passed their B. Tec, A-Levels or college studies
COURSE OUTLINE
- Overview and setting the context
- Factors that affect estimation
- Inputs and outputs for estimation
- Popular methods in estimation
- Top-down and bottom-up estimation
- Relative estimation
- Principles of agile estimation
- User story points
- Planning poker
- Summary – Q & A
What will you learn?
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Define what estimation is and explain the importance of it
- Describe the benefits and value of estimation in the context of IT
- Project and product characteristics
- Process characteristics
- Errors
- Costs
- Establish the estimation approach using the relevant examples
- Painting a house
- Designing and developing an eCommerce web site
- Explain the involvement of various people in estimation
- Elaborate on the questions to answer during the estimation
- Describe how to do estimation and explain the steps:
- Estimate size
- Apply productivity to get Effort
- Use resource allocation to arrive at schedule
- Apply rates to estimate the total cost
- Talk about the different factors that affect estimation
- Explain the inputs and outputs for estimation
- List the different approaches to perform estimation in software development
- Elaborate on the following estimation approaches:
- Top-down estimation
- Bottom-up estimation
- Absolute estimation
- Relative estimation
- List some of the popular estimation methods in IT
- Explain each of the following estimation methods and their applications:
- Wideband Delphi method
- Work breakdown structure (WBS)
- Source lines of code (SLOC)
- Function point analysis (FP)
- Use Case Point (UCP)
- Story point estimation (SP)
- Discuss the significance of relative estimation in agile development
- Describe the story points estimation method in agile context
- Explain the key principles in agile estimation
- Describe the best practices in agile estimation:
- Scoping in and scoping out
- Using team’s productivity effectively
- Using relative estimation
- Tee-shirt sizing technique
- Walk through how agile teams play the ‘Planning Poker’ game
What do you need?
There are no pre-requisites for this course. There is no need for any prior experience, working knowledge or awareness of software development or projects experience. The course is suitable for experienced professionals working in the industry or academia, aspirants and early stage professionals, as well as students in universities and colleges. Professionals and aspirants from technology, business, operations or sales, are all welcome to explore and understand the importance of having clear vision and roadmap in the journey for creating successful products.
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Trainer Profile
Your trainer for this course is Pardha Saradhi Mantravadi. Pardha is a seasoned and well-qualified trainer, coach, mentor, influencer and thought leader. He has rich and varied IT-industry experience of 25 years, working in different roles as an IT professional with blue-chip organisations viz., HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Dyson, Asda, Cambridge University Press, Roche, King’s College London , Royal Society of Chemistry etc. Pardha delivers his training sessions by blending the concepts and principles with practical insights from real-life projects and programs…click here to view the complete trainer profile.
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Texavi Toolkit
Team TEXAVI created relevant videos, podcasts, blog posts, white papers, posters and articles for your use. Check the below content out to understand more about the practices, methods and techniques in software estimation:
- Checklist for software estimation – use this quick reference
- Estimation using user story points – A guide from Atlassian Jira team
- Methods and tools for the new-age, agile business analysis
- Top-down and bottom-up estimation methods – Watch Texavi’s video
- Make it simple – Texavi poster on simple and smart solutions