Software Development Expertise

Estimating

For over a decade, DCG has helped many Fortune 1000 organizations improve estimation of their their software development regardless of technologies, platforms and industries. The result has been projects delivered on time and on budget.

Read the recent DCG Trusted Advisor Review of IEEE Estimation Tools and Techniques Report

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Estimation Clinic - Methods, Maturity and Money - The DCG Estimation Clinic is a ½ day on-site workshop designed to facilitate a consensus conversation and to equip leaders and practitioners with practical concepts and ideas regarding changing the current estimation culture, process and results. Download the full agenda of what the Estimation Clinic can do for your organization.

Estimation Seminar (3 day workshop) -Click for Syllabus - Advanced your Estimation Planning Results
There is no one size fits all estimation tool or method. Most high performing successful organizations adopt and adapt techniques, methods and tools that fit their corporate culture. This seminar workshop provides your software development process leaders the background, insight and exposure to sizing and estimation best practices to start your journey to dramatically improved estimation. Because this is coaching and mentoring focused with high interactivity, this is only offered to individual corporations on an on-site and limited remote delivery basis. Contact info@davidconsultinggroup.com for more information.

Agile Estimation
Agile as part of the software development process continues to grow. Agile estimation is crucial to improved performance. However because Agile can be implemented in so many ways, a wide range of hybridization has occurred. Teams and governance structures struggle with estimating the shortened development cycles. Functional metrics provide a path for incorporating the best practices of robust software sizing with the collaborative techniques championed by the agile community in a manner that increase standardization without ignoring the principals of the Agile Manifesto. DCG Agile Estimation training provides Agile teams the quick and early method of sizing work in a statistically reliable process.

One-off Estimation Process
Organizations responsible to produce software at times require an independent, third party estimate to advance their software product development. Their internal estimation processes are sufficient, they simply require a second opinion, a second set of numbers. DCG provides a rapid, cost-effective, one-off estimation support. The process is described in this service description. Download now and contact info@davidconsultinggroup.com for more information.

Tools
DCG has partnered with Galorath, the industry leader in world-class enterprise software tools, manufactures and supports the SEER-SEEM tool set, to make sure that you have access to state of the art estimation capabilities. Download a summary of the SEER-SEM Estimation toolsets