Product verifiable, defensible, and achievable software estimates

Based on data collected by the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group (ISBSG), Practical Software Project Estimation explains how to accurately forecast the size, cost, and schedule of software projects. Get expert advice on generating accurate estimates, minimizing risks, and planning and managing projects. Valuable appendixes provide estimation equations, delivery rate tables, and the ISBSG Repository demographics.

• Verify project objectives and requirements
• Determine, validate, and refine...

Price is often the most significant factor affecting the profitability of businesses. When the pressure is on to perform or grow, the instinct may be to discount, undercut the competition, cut costs and promote through price. Yet these are often the last things businesses should do.

Pricing for Profit is a practical guide to value-based pricing. Using a firm, profit-focused framework developed from running real projects for real businesses, this book shows how to increase prices without losing business and how to make a huge difference to the bottom line by getting pricing...

What makes Oiseaux exotiques so important is that it is arguably the first of Messiaen's major works to create a successful synthesis between his music and his passion for ornithology. The earliest composition to use birdsong to a significant extent was the Quatuor pour la fin du Temps (1940a 41). A newspaper interview a few years later (France-Soir, 1948) demonstrates Messiaen's growing desire to move away from the stylization that had characterized the Quatuor towards a much greater realism, based on a close observation of birds in their natural habitat. At the same time, Messiaen continued...