Washington ICEAA

WCAC ICEAA April Luncheon: Agile Software Development Cost Estimating
2025-04-07 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Microsoft Teams
SUMMARY:
This presentation will discuss agile software development cost estimating in the multi-year planning cycle. Agile software development programs focus on near term workload and activities with only limited future planning cycles identified. Future cycles are only activated as their start date nears. Any model-based cost estimate or predictive analysis for the budget needs to be flexible, responsive, and adaptive to the daily dynamics of Agile software development program planning and execution. As a cost estimator, integrating with the IPT for a particular program or project has always been a critical factor in understanding requirements, gathering data, and producing a quality estimate. With agile processes being adopted more frequently across software development organizations, cost estimators and program offices are challenged even further to work closely with developers to continuously update cost estimates. Agile sprint results reveal progress of development, and, subsequently, could affect the cost estimate and budget requests.
This briefing was originally presented at the ICEAA Professional Development & Training Workshop.
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Speaker:
Jim Golden, Unison Cost Engineering
Speaker Bio:
Jim Golden – Jim Golden is a Solutions Consultant and U.S. Army lead for Unison Cost Engineering and is responsible for supporting U.S. Army organizations. He has over 30 years of experience in cost analysis with the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Army. Jim is a Level 3 Certified Acquisition Professional in both Cost Estimating and Financial Management and is Level 3 certified under the DoD Financial Management Certification program. He is a retired U.S. Air Force Financial Analyst; the former Cost Chief of the U.S. Army’s PEO STRI; and a U.S. Army Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.
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