Triple Your Predictability

DATE: September 19, 2002

PLACE: Rideau Room, Sheraton Hotel, 150 Albert Street, 6:00 PM

SPEAKER: Mark Farrell, Ceyba Networks

EVENT ABSTRACT

Senior management, project primes and software developers are given too many tasks with too little time. To avoid frustrating days full of crises we must work as effectively as possible. For quick development we can avoid resource contentions by predicting effort better.

Large software projects can afford complex tools to predict effort. Even then, ten thousand dollar diagnostic packages that give confusing results are ignored. Small software projects need easy estimators based on less data that give clear results.

On small software projects, conventional prediction models demand too much data, too late in development. Mike Farrell will present a spreadsheet model that allows users to predict effort for these types of projects. Users predict the number of service requests likely to be encountered in the next phase, and thus the effort that should be set aside. Resource contentions can be minimized, speeding both product development and problem resolution.

This newly developed model works on all the data, thus predicting three times earlier. The model can also be used to track trends even during development.

Designed for ease-of-use, self-servicing, virus immunity and small in size, this new model promises to triple your predictability and reduce crises.