Thanks to David DeWitt for this article.  It is just disappointing that I sat outside at a football game in the freezing cold last week and they didn’t come up as BCS champions:) Software Cost Estimation is like the BCS ratings… Everyone that...

Here was a recent post on the Harvard Business Blog on understanding the transaction costs of IT.  According to the blog:  the IT cost per equity trade is approximately $0.17 the IT cost per hospital bed is $65 per patient the IT cost per trucking...

FPGA Growth and Costing by Sam Sanchez, Technical Director-Electronics Field Programmable Gate Arrays are continuing to absorb more and more capabilities that used to reside elsewhere on electronic boards. In the past few years, FPGA devices have not...

Dan will be speaking at the Chi10 stecago SPIN on November 12, 2009 on the topic of controlling software projects.  Estimation, planning, control, metrics, and maintenance fo a total ownership cost view wil be discussed. The presentation is here:...

The Alpha Acquisition process may provide a cost savings to both government and contractors.  The following is from the Defense Acquisition University  website: The alpha contracting process involves many activities performed jointly by the...