IT Costs & Workload Estimates – Overview of the estimation techniques

Inter and intra-company training

Which level is targeted at the end of the training course?

Beginner

How long does the training course last?

 1,00 day(s)

In which language(s) is the training course taught?

EN FR

When will the next session take place?

Who is organising this training course?

escent advises its customers on the governance of the Business Analysis and is a recognized certified trainer at the International Requirement Engineering Board (IREB) and International Institute Business Analysis (IIBA), the two world leading associations defining and promoting the business requirements and engineering techniques in the project life cycle.

Who is the training course aimed at?

Target audience

  • You are interested in understanding how various estimation techniques can help you to correctly evaluate your IT project costs and efforts and so efficiently allocate resources to tasks
  • You are a project manager, scrum master, solution architect, lead analyst, lead developer or team manager involved in workload and costs estimating within the scope of software development project

What are the aims or the skills being targeted?

Your expectations
  • Discover and understand how estimation techniques can help you in your project effort estimation activities
  • Assess pros & cons of various workload estimation approaches
  • Implement and use well-proven estimation techniques in your working environment in order to better plan the human resources allocation to project tasks
  • Provide and better communicate soundly-based estimates to your project stakeholders

What does the training course cover?

What will you learn?
  • Why correctly estimating is a key criteria for the success of a project
  • What are the prerequisites needed for a efficient workload estimation
  • What are the influencing factors to take into account and the most common errors to avoid when estimating project activities
  • Which appropriate costs estimation technique to select according to your project environment and how to use it
  • How to efficiently communicate estimates

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