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This webinar demonstrates how to identify unrealistic expectations and generate estimates that set you up for successThis webinar demonstrates how to identify unrealistic expectations and generate estimates that set you up for success
The SLIM-Suite of tools has come a long way from Larry Putnam’s Software Lifecycle Methodology research in 1978. Over the years, what we now know as SLIM tools have evolved from a mainframe-based...
In this presentation, Larry Putnam, Jr. reviews some of Larry Putnam Sr’s original research and the data that it was based on. He then explores if that original research continues to stand the te...
Outsourcing was supposed to make government IT executives’ lives easier. Yet in too many cases, it’s had the opposite effect, leading to cost overruns, inefficiencies, and solutions that do not...
Aaron Jeutter presented the technique of “Big Rock Sizing” during the QSM Agile Round Table series and provided an article published on the QSM web site under “Big Rock Estimation: Using Agil...
Large, complex, multi-region organizations are uniquely challenged to maintain and comply with their own internally-defined best practice standards. Estimation is no exception. As a result, it's of...