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Certified or Certifiable - Is there benefit from Automated Function Point Counting? 22 Feb 2013 | 04:40 am
I recently attended a webinar presented by David Herron of the David Consulting Group (DCG) discussing a recently released specification for the automation of function point counting (available on the...
In Development: TruePlanning Viewer 9 Jan 2013 | 08:58 pm
While TruePlanning by PRICE Systems is the world leading parametric cost estimation tool, the reality is that not all members in an organization are going to have TruePlanning installed on their deskt...
Electronics Study Preliminary Results! With Some Interesting Insights. 8 Jan 2013 | 06:46 pm
The preliminary results are in for our electronics complexity study! For those that are unfamiliar with TruePlanning® lingo, Manufacturing Complexity for Electronics is our scale for measuring the d...
Defending Your Estimate with Public Data 19 Dec 2012 | 12:12 am
One of the biggest challenges estimators face is defending their estimates. You may trust in your estimate, but how do you get others on board who might be unfamiliar with parametric estimating? Sho...
Customizing TruePlanning™ Outputs in Excel… via Pivot Tables! 29 Nov 2012 | 06:41 pm
With Customize View, TruePlanning™ offers great flexibility in editing favorites as row by column grids. Typical examples are Object by Activity, Object by Resource and Activity by Resource. But wha...
Organization Culture Change: Easy to Say, Hard to Do 2 Nov 2012 | 01:43 am
Changing organization culture is often cited as necessary for surviving the grim financial realities we face today. Everywhere you look, no one seems to have enough money to buy what they need, but so...
Software Sizing via “Early & Quick Function Points” 17 Oct 2012 | 11:42 pm
A frequent question from students and consulting clients is how to estimate software size when either: detailed functional requirements descriptions are not yet documented or, even if the latter do e...
Excel Friend or Foe – Part 2 – Using the Companion Applications on Large Cost Estimation ... 17 Oct 2012 | 08:41 pm
PRICE was recently tasked by a client to provide an Analysis of Alternatives (AOA). As we assembled a team to complete this, I was tasked with modeling all the alternatives inside TruePlanning. After...
Representing Acquisition Phases in TruePlanning® 11 Oct 2012 | 08:38 pm
Over the past year and half of customer mentoring, I have been responding to more and more requests regarding how to represent the DoD Acquisition Phases in the development of TruePlanning® cost estim...
Value Engineering Within the Affordability Context 10 Oct 2012 | 11:43 pm
Recently I wrote a blog on the “Role of Value Engineering in Affordability Analysis.” In that blog, I wrote about the importance of understanding the cost behavior of each candidate's (alternative) ar...
