Thank you Stuart, Robin & Robert for your helpful replies.
It is very useful to know what particular methods you are actually applying as there are many academic texts on the subject. These usually require data input that isnt always available and so a more practical method has to be adopted.
The above methods attend to the actual estimate process, however, methods of communicating and persuading upper mangement of the validity of these is required - a friend of mine calls this the believability factor. Also what do you do about those whom you report to who are uneducated in estimation, how do you go about convincing them of the validity of the estimates ?
Thank you Stuart, Robin & Robert for your helpful replies.
It is very useful to know what particular methods you are actually applying as there are many academic texts on the subject. These usually require data input that isnt always available and so a more practical method has to be adopted.
The above methods attend to the actual estimate process, however, methods of communicating and persuading upper mangement of the validity of these is required - a friend of mine calls this the believability factor. Also what do you do about those whom you report to who are uneducated in estimation, how do you go about convincing them of the validity of the estimates ?
