Two key features of a project are on-time and on-budget delivery. The project manager can only fulfill these objectives if the estimates leading to the project schedule and budget are accurate.

Project managers are asked to provide effort, duration, and cost estimates as a primary part of our jobs. You know then, that the estimation process is partly an art and partly a science. However, ...

Last week I received a question about project estimation. If you’re part of a next-generation IT group, project estimation is a critically important capability. If, on the other hand, you’re part of a ...

There are three main areas to estimate before your project starts--effort, duration, and cost. Of the three, you must estimate effort first to understand the total amount of work. The duration can be ...