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Estimating and Planning IT Projects

Do you want to develop a reliable statement about your project lead time and your project costs? If you would like to learn everything about planning and estimating IT projects, then look forward to this training. Together we will look at different approaches to estimating an IT project to improve the accuracy of the estimate.

Certificate of attendance from Spirit in Projects Advanced

Project Manager

Goals

  • Be able to assess the quality of the estimation basis
  • Factors influencing the estimate
  • Different methods of effort estimation for IT projects
  • Validation of the estimation results
  • Implementation of structured project planning in your company

Target Groups

Project Manager Product Owner Project manager IT project manager and anyone who wants to get involved in project management

Content

01

1. Requirements in the specifications as a basis for estimation

  • Types of requirements for estimation
  • Presentation of the requirements for the estimate
  • Differences in effort between different requirement types
02

2. How IT process models influence estimation and planning

  • waterfall
  • Iterative-incremental
  • Agile
03

3. Know basic estimation methods and check the results

  • Planning poker
  • Delphi estimate
  • Expert estimate
04

4. Know advanced estimation methods and check the results

  • Function points and use case points
  • COCOMO II
05

5. Check the planning of IT projects

  • Quality criteria for good IT project planning
  • Milestone planning
  • Work packages
  • Service descriptions
  • Resource planning

Certification

For this training you will receive a certificate of participation from Spirit in Projects.

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