I’ll be giving a free webinar on the 10 Deadly Sins of Software Estimation on April 28, 2011 at 10:00 AM Pacific Time. Here’s a link to sign up for it: http://adtmag.com/webcasts/2011/03/construx-10-deadly-sins-of-software-estimation.aspx?partnerref=con4.
Here’s the overview:
The average project overruns its budget and schedule estimates by 50-80 percent, but in practice little work is done that could truly be called "estimation." Many projects are scheduled using a combination of legitimate business targets and liberal doses of wishful thinking. In this talk, I will present 10 of the worst ways estimates go wrong and time-tested rules of thumb for dramatically improving estimation accuracy.