In project management (ie. for engineering), accurate estimates are the basis of sound project planning. Many process which have been developed to aid engineers in making accurate estimates, such as Project Management is the discipline of organizing and managing resources (e. ... Engineering is the applied science of acquiring and applying knowledge to design, analysis, and/or construction of works for practical purposes. ... Project planning is part of project management, which relates to the use of schedules such as Gantt charts to plan and subsequently report progress within the project environment. ...

• compartmentalization (ie. breakdown of tasks),
• parametric estimating,
• structured planning,
• educated assumptions,
• Delphi method
• identifying dependencies,
• examining historical data,
• estimating each task,
• documenting the results.

Popular estimation processes include: Most intracellular organelles, i. ... Breakdown may refer to: Look up Breakdown in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Estimation theory is a branch of statistics and signal processing that deals with estimating the values of parameters based on measured/empirical data. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Delphi method has been an anticipatory thinking (futures) technique aimed at building an agreement, or consensus about an opinion or view, without necessarily having people meet face to face, such as through surveys, questionnaires, e-mails etc. ...

• Cocomo
• Proxy Based Estimation (PROBE) (from the Personal Software Process)
• Wideband Delphi
• The Planning Game (from Extreme Programming)
• Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
• Event chain methodology

This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Designed by Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon, PSP has its roots in Capability Maturity Model (CMM), the Personal Software Process is a set of guidelines and best practices to incorporate discipline in the software development process. ... The Wideband Delphi estimation method is a consensus-based estimation technique for estimating effort. ... Extreme Programming (or XP) is a software engineering methodology, the most prominent of several agile software development methodologies, prescribing a set of daily stakeholder practices that embody and encourage particular XP values (below). ... PERT network chart for a seven-month project with five milestones (10 through 50) and six activities (A through F). ... Event chain diagram Event chain methodology is an uncertainty modeling and schedule network analysis technique that is focused on identifying and managing events and event chains that affect project schedules. ...

See also

• Cognitive bias
• Estimation in software engineering
• Work Breakdown Structure
• Project management
• Software metric
• Wideband Delphi
• Guesstimate

This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The ability to accurately estimate the time/cost taken for a project to come to its successful conclusion has been a serious problem for software engineers. ... // One of the most important WBS design principles is called the 100% Rule. ... Project Management is the discipline of organizing and managing resources (e. ... A software metric is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications. ... The Wideband Delphi estimation method is a consensus-based estimation technique for estimating effort. ... Look up guesstimate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

External links

• Estimation chapter from "Applied Software Project Management" (PDF)
• The Dynamics of Software Projects Estimation
• Estimator-Estimation Software
• Estimations in project management