Principles, process and practice of professional number juggling /
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| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2019.
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| Series: | Working guides to estimating & forecasting ;
volume 1 |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; 1 Introduction and objectives; 1.1 Why write this book? Who might find it useful? Why five volumes?; 1.1.1 Why write this series? Who might find it useful?; 1.1.2 Why five volumes?; 1.2 Features you'll find in this book and others in this series; 1.2.1 Chapter context; 1.2.2 The lighter side (humour); 1.2.3 Quotations; 1.2.4 Definitions; 1.2.5 Discussions and explanations with a mathematical slant for Formula-philes; 1.2.6 Discussions and explanations without a mathematical slant for Formula-phobes
- 1.2.7 Caveat augur1.2.8 Worked examples; 1.2.9 Useful Microsoft Excel functions and facilities; 1.2.10 References to authoritative sources; 1.2.11 Chapter reviews; 1.3 Overview of chapters in this volume; 1.4 Elsewhere in the 'Working Guide to Estimating & Forecasting' series; 1.4.1 Volume I: Principles, Process and Practice of Professional Number Juggling; 1.4.2 Volume II: Probability, Statistics and Other Frightening Stuff; 1.4.3 Volume III: Best Fit Lines and Curves, and Some Mathe-Magical Transformations; 1.4.4 Volume IV: Learning, Unlearning and Re-Learning Curves
- 1.4.5 Volume V: Risk, Opportunity, Uncertainty and Other Random Models1.5 Final thoughts and musings on this volume and series; References; 2 Methods, approaches, techniques and related terms; 2.1 What is the difference between a method, approach and technique?; 2.2 Estimating Process; 2.3 Estimating Approaches; 2.3.1 Top-down Approach; 2.3.2 Bottom-up Approach; 2.3.3 Ethereal Approach; 2.4 Estimating Methods; 2.4.1 Analogical or Analogous Method; 2.4.2 Parametric Method; 2.4.3 'Trusted Source' Method; 2.4.4 Methods that are arguably not methods (in their own right); 2.5 Estimating Techniques
- 2.6 Estimating Procedures2.7 Combining Approaches and Methods; 2.7.1 Choice of Estimating Approach for a chosen Estimating Element; 2.7.2 Choice of Estimating Method for a chosen Estimating Approach; 2.7.3 Choice of Estimating Technique for a chosen Estimating Method; 2.8 Chapter review; References; 3 Estimate TRACEability and health checks; 3.1 Basis of Estimate, TRACEability and estimate maturity; 3.1.1 Building bridges between two estimates; 3.2 Estimate and Schedule Maturity Assessments (or health checks); 3.2.1 Estimate Maturity Assessment (EMA); 3.2.2 Schedule Maturity Assessment (SMA)
- 3.2.3 Cost and Schedule Integration Maturity Assessment (CASIMA)3.3 Good Practice Spreadsheet Modelling (GPSM); 3.3.1 Level of documentation (T, M); 3.3.2 No hidden worksheets, columns or rows (T, M); 3.3.3 Colour coded cells and worksheet tabs (U, S); 3.3.4 Locked calculation cells and protected worksheets and workbooks (S); 3.3.5 No hard-coded constants unless axiomatic (M); 3.3.6 Left to Right and Top to Bottom readability flow (U); 3.3.7 Avoid data generated by macros ... Unless there is a genuine benefit (S, T); 3.3.8 Avoid Array Formulae (T, U, M)