Effort Estimations for Managers
How much trust does the estimate deserve? How "accurate" can it be anyway? Why is it "never" right?
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Tag: Project Management
ECC 2022: "Software Safety Analysis for Practitioners"
Visit our presentation on software safety analysis (SW-FMEA) at the ECC 2022 in Winterthur!
Planning Poker: Instructions and Deck
Do you want to tap the experience of your team? How to play planning poker? Experience the easy way towards accurate estimations.
Effort Estimation: Estimation Tools for Projects
Do you need an effort estimate for your cost calculation? A guide on how to estimate project effort.
Embedded Development: Questions and Answers
Do you have questions on embedded development? On product development and projects? We answer them here.
Client Guide to Embedded Product Development
How does cooperation with Solcept work? What are your advantages? What other models are there? What is important?
Project Management: Questions and Answers
How does embedded development work? Answers on tools, agile methods, specifications, projects with third parties...
Selection Criteria for Development Partners
How do you choose a development partner for product development? What are the criteria? What about the costs? And what about the costs?
Overruns of Time and Budgets: Why?
Why do development projects exceed budget and deadlines? Overrun causes and how to eliminate them (alas, not always without pain).
Cost of Product and Software Development
Are you considering custom product development or software development? We explain development costs, prices and price differences.
Core Competencies when you Work with Service Providers?
What and where are core competencies anyway? And what does it mean for them when you work with external parties?
Development Strategies for Embedded
Engineering firm, own development team, EEMS, freelancer or near-shoring/off-shoring? What are the advantages and disadvantages?
Paradoxes of Embedded Development
Is the obvious thing always the right thing? We believe that we should consider a few paradoxes in product development.
Collaboration Models: What are Your Benefits?
What does a cooperation with us mean? In terms of no lock-in, zero-cost-of-ownership warranty, quality, innovation and hourly rates?
Project Flow: How do we Work With You?
When we carry out a project for you, how does it feel for you? What are your most important interactions with us?
Data Flow Diagrams: The Forgotten Art
Why data flow diagrams? A plea for more clarity on design, analysis, and functional safety of complex systems.
Innovation-Pareto: When is it Finished?
Hooray it's up and running! So the innovation is done? Or is it not? Some thoughts on non-functional requirements for products.
Risk Management: a Guide and Template
Do you want to take your project management one step further? A guide to simple effective project risk management.
ESE Congress 2019: Presentation about Safety and Psychology
Visit our presentation on FuSa an psychology at the ESE Kongress in Sindelfingen!
Outsourcing Checklist: Pick the Right Partner
What should you consider when you outsource? How to outsource? Our outsourcing checklist.
Effort Functional Safety vs. "Normal" Development
How do you coarsely estimate the effort for the development of safety-critical systems and functional safety?
Safety & Security 2018: "From Functioning to Safe..."
Visit our presentation on development processes for functional safety!
ECC 2018: "Why Processes: is this not Just Ardous?"
Visit our presentation on development processes at the ECC 2018 in Winterthur!
ESE Congress 2017: Presentation about Effort Estimation
Visit our presentation on estimation at the ESE Kongress in Sindelfingen!
Dreyfus Model: How To Evaluate Expertise?
How to asses specialists? The Dreyfus model in practical use for engineers.