A few years back, a colleague shared an interesting exercise with me. He took a deck of cards, split it in half, turned one half face up, then mixed all the cards up on a table and asked me how many ...

Okay, so I’m just going to go ahead and say it: It is impossible to accurately estimate a software project of any significance. Now, a non-trivial number of you are going to read that sentence and ...

One of the first tasks when managing a project is the cost estimate. A cost estimate must be accurate, transparent and reliable. These factors are particularly important for a small business because ...

As the oil and gas industry explores new regions, the role of cost estimating to support the projects becomes more challenging. Cost estimating for the most part is a specialized field whose end ...