Reviews by Professor of Software Engineering, Sylvie Trudel and James Walker Phd, CTO of Curiosity software have both used and given ScopeMaster 5 star reviews. Another unsolicited 5 star review. This one by Thomas Naylor, Founder of Hifo More 5 star reviews, including one from [...]
Working closely with the Canadian Treasury's cost assurance department, we used ScopeMaster® to provide insight for their cost estimation and planning of a major HR applications consolidation programme. A backlog of over 2600 requirements were examined in order to determine both the requirements quality and the functional size. The size estimates were [...]
At the IWSM-Mensura Conference Rome 2023, Colin Hammond was asked to both review academic paper submissions and present his own peer-reviewed industry paper on the Symbiotic Relationship between Sizing and Requirements Quality , revealed through automated analysis.
Colin Hammond has been asked on three occasions to present at the Joint IT and Software Cost Forum: 2019, 2021 and 2023. This a conference that helps US Government departments responsible for investments in IT and software to pool best known ideas and techniques for improving cost estimation. It's an invitation only event co-hosted by [...]
Exploring biases in software cost estimation with Amritpal Agar. Colin Hammond was invited to share his views and expertise in software costing, in particular some of the biases that affects the reliability of software cost estimates. Listen to the podcast episode. @CostofPodcast
