estimation

Wanted: Excel sheet for project estimation by betting /team lottery for the release date

Hello, a while ago I read an article on estimating software projects which had an example of a kind of a tongue - in - cheek approach to project estimation. It worked like this: Every team member, no matter how deeply involved in the planning phase could bet on a finishing date. There was an Excel file with a timeline on the top, and ...

Open Source Project Cost Estimation Application

Hi All, I am looking for a Cost Estimation application that is open source and written in java Any suggestion? thanks... ...

FP Estimation - Email as Data Function?

For a project, there is a requirement to send out many detailed emails to workflow participants. The emails would contain summary information about the request that workflow participants would act upon. It would also contain information about what they need to do etc. I am try to provide an FP estimate for the application. Question is...

Calculating audio pitch in MATLAB?

Yesterday I finalised the code for detecting the audio energy of a track displayed over time, which I will eventually use as part of my audio thumbnailing project. However I would also like a method that can detect the pitch of a track displayed over time, so I have 2 options from which to base my research upon. [y, fs, nb] = wavread('...

Production Support estimation tools (FTEs estimate)

Does anyone know of any established tools for estimating full time employees required for a production support project? I found the following www.galorath.com > SEER (Based on Historical data + parametric modeling) http://www.spr.com/products-tools-a-resources.html (Based on Industry knowledgebase + project attributes) I was wonder...

How to estimate complex algorithm facility requirements?

I'd like to understand how to efficiently estimate hardware requirements for certain complex algorithms using some well known heuristic approach. Ie. I'd like to estimate quickly how much computer power is necessary to crack my TEA O(2^32) or XTEA O(2^115.15) in some reasonable time or other way round : Having facility power of a 1000 x...

LOC estimate information

my manager asked to LOC estimate for the new project. I am new to LOC estimate. where could I get information on this? ...

How many man-hours should I estimate for this iPad app?

Background: I've developed an iPad/iPhone app of my own before. This will be my first app for a client. I have no experience estimating the number of hours it will take, since all of my prior iOS development has been off the clock. I'd like to get a very general recommendation for how long it would take a knowledgeable iOS developer to ...

Is there a way to estimate time/effort overhead due to team growing?

A team with say 100 people will be less productive (in terms of productivity per each one of them) than a team with just 5. So the question is, is there a way (a formula, a standard, or at least a hint) to estimate that overhead? ...

How many man hours should I ask for this almost-facebook clone?

I am asked to prepare estimates for an application with the following must-have features. Login, including several hierarchical user access levels. Chat amongst users allowing the user to become invisible. Ability to post a public message, video, voice recording, image or draw an image using flash based sketching environment. Ability t...

Mysql - "Best Match" search algorithm

Let's assume I have a table full of teachers. every teacher has these parameters: Experience Hourly Cost Distance Last Login Total Rating (like an eBay score given by student) the fact is, that I would avoid to give my users those dropdown menus to choose the sorting option, but i would build a search engine smart enough to compute t...

Estimating a project with many unknowns

I'm working on a project with many unknowns like moving the app from one platform to another and with an original JDK that was abused (changed) with dependencies in code that do search for file path like \\ with calling other servers with shared directories etc and need to move it to Unix. I find that there are MANY unknowns. My origina...