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While cost estimation is challenging in hardware and manufacturing projects, software cost estimators face unprecedented obstacles when they are asked to estimate agile projects. Not only are these projects wrought with uncertainty, requirements often shift, technologies change direction, and customers shift priorities. Learn how software cost estimators in leading organizations are responding to an even changing software landscape and delivering estimates that lead to project success.
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    Carol Dekkers
    Founder and CEO of Quality Plus Technologies, Inc.
    Ms. Carol Dekkers, PMP, CFPS (Fellow), P.Eng, CSM, AEC, is founder and CEO of Quality Plus Technologies, Inc. She works with government and companies who want to succeed with software measurement and functional size measurement. Recently, Carol also became a charter member of the Heart of Agile consulting team. She is a co-author of several textbooks (The IT Measurement Compendium: Estimating and Benchmarking Success with Functional Size Measurement; Program management toolkit for software and systems development; Practical Software Project Estimation; and others,) and is a frequent speaker worldwide on estimating & measurement.
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    Daniel B. French
    Mr. Dan French has twenty years of experience in a variety of IT roles including analyst, developer, tester, project management, software estimation. He has developed CMMi and ISO compliant process improvement and software estimation processes. Dan holds a B.S. in Economics from Virginia Tech and holds certification as a CFPS, PMP and CSM. He also serves as Chairman of the IFPUG Functional Software Sizing Committee (FSSC). He’s authored numerous white papers/presentations on software metrics, Agile, and estimation.