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The development and delivery of software projects is one of the most risky activities in the modern business world. The situation has changed little with object technology. A key root cause of project failure is the lack of quantitative approaches to project cost estimation, bidding and project delivery. This tutorial will equip participants with the prerequisite skills necessary to successfully estimate, bid and deliver component based software development projects. The tutorial will present the basics of quantitative OO management technology and conclude with a workshop where participants will competitively bid for a real-life software development contract. This tutorial will equip participants with the basic knowledge and skills to safely estimate, bid and deliver OO software projects, particularly in a fixed price software project environment.

Attendee Background: This course is targeted towards seasoned professionals responsible for the estimation, bidding and delivery of OO projects. Attendees should have significant industry experience in OO project management, component architectures or OO process management.

Philip Haynes is a Principal Consultant and Program Manager with Object Oriented Pty. Ltd. Since 1994 he has worked on estimating, bidding and delivery of fixed priced software projects. Mr. Haynes has also been actively researching and applying quantitative OO process management technologies in an industrial context and has written number of papers on software quality management and quantitative approaches to software development. Mr. Haynes was a workshop organizer for the 1996-1998 OOPSLA OO Metrics and Cost Estimation Workshops.