Duration
3 days
Outline
- 1. Introduction and Establishing Context
- Introduction to the group & Ice breaking session
- Setting up context of the training session
- 2. Estimation Overview, Need and Challenges
- Quality Assurance, Quality Control & Cost of Quality
- Challenges & Problems in Estimation
- Short Case Study on Estimation & Challenges
- Exercise on Concepts
- 3. Introduction to Sizing Techniques
- Scoping & Strategy Formulation
- Software Sizing Techniques (LoC, FPs)
- Direct Estimation Methods
- Derived Estimation Methods
- Logic Driven
- Technology Driven
- Hybrid methods
- Comparing Function Point Estimation Methods
- Weighted Choice Matrix
- 4. Function Points Counting Process Overview
- Introduction to Quick Function Points
- Brief history
- ESCOM 97 conference and DPO
- Scope and Software redefinition
- Exercise – Thinking in Quick Function Points
- Principles of E&Q Method
- Analogy based classification
- Structured aggregation
- Flexible estimation
- Multi-level approach
- Statistically derivative weights
- Proxy based sizing method
- Functional Proxies: Transaction and Data
- Exercise and Case example
- 5. The E&QFP Estimation Procedure
- Establishing the type of FP estimation
- Identify the application scope and application boundary
- Exercise on application boundary
- Establish the estimation level of detail
- Identify E&QFP components data and transactions
- Calculation of Unadjusted Function Points
- GSCs and determining VAF
- Calculation of Final E&Q Function Point Count
- 6. E&Q Function Point Estimation and User Requirements
- Understanding user requirements and the impact on estimation
- Homogenous requirements
- Data visibility
- Function visibility
- Easy & Quick Function Point Estimation Components
- Exercise
- 7. Comparison: E&QFP and Standard IFPUG Function Points
- Software Waterfall Development Model
- Incremental Development Model
- Evolutionary Development Model
- 8. Case Study and Exercise
- Estimation Examples
- Case study and exercise on E&Q Function Points
- 9. Summarizing
- Synopsis of topics covered
- Feedback
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