Category: Cost Engineering

Benchmarking supports better cost estimates, leveraging analysis on your financial and project knowledge, and industry data.

Agile development requires a mind shift on the part of both the developers and consumers of software to accept the reality that things will change over the course of the project.

When employing agile development practices, an organization effectively embarks on a new software development project with every iteration. The tenets of agile require frequent releases and frequent customer reviews. These reviews often trigger re-prioritization and re-estimation.

Unison Cost Engineering had the pleasure of working with The JPL Cost Estimation and Pricing (CE&P) Section to support a TruePlanning model validation study.

Whether a cost engineer is pricing a competitive bid, or trying to get a new product to market, estimating accuracy will determine success or failure.