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Software Estimation Blogs

Calculation and analysis of potential software project or release schedule, cost, effort, duration, and/or software size (scope) using the Putnam SLIM Software Production Equation.
Software Size Matters episode 7
What Makes a Software Performance Benchmark Truly Meaningful?
How quantifying software size provides the necessary context for accurate software performance benchmarking and estimate validation.
Small Software Project Failure
Are Your Software Projects Too Small?

Software projects that are too large have a reputation of being risky and having a high failure rate, but software projects that are too small are also in danger of failing for similar reasons.

QSM Webinar
Microsoft Services Global Apps CTO Discusses His Team's Evolution Around Estimation

In this webinar, Apps Global CTO for Microsoft Services, Lenny Fenster, answers questions about software project estimation strategies.

QSM Webinar
QSM Virtual Conference Recap and Presentation Replays

Included are the full replays of every presentation at the QSM Virtual Conference centered around software project estimation.
Fixed Schedule Software Project Estimation
Is Software Estimation Needed When the Cost and Schedule Are Fixed?

Even when schedules, team size, and budgets are fixed, comparing estimates to historical industry data of completed projects provides project managers with the ability to determine if the project will be successful or not early on.

Software Project Risk Assessment
Bringing Transparency into Project Contingency Buffers for Schedule and Cost

SLIM’s contingency overlay charts make it easier to assess risk and allow estimators to visualize how different estimates compare.

SLIM Suite Software
The “Secret Sauce” in SLIM-Estimate

The secret sauce in the SLIM methodology is pivotal in being able to account for the non-linear tradeoff between cost/effort and duration.