Webinar: Let's SiSE Agile Program Requirements! by Department of Homeland Security/OCFO

About This Webinar

Quickly and efficiently sizing the development effort for agile software programs is a challenge for many IT programs. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has undergone an intensive research process of software sizing methodologies over the past 5 years, culminating in the development of a simplified software estimating process known as SiSE - Simple Software Estimation. The SiSE Estimating Process is a customized approach that combines functional software sizing principles (i.e., quantifying business function/transaction types, system interfaces, and requirements counts from high-level acquisition documentation) together with software productivity rates (e.g., hours per function point) to create realistic estimates for Agile software development effort and cost. This presentation introduces the SiSE process together with our open source SiSE guidebook and associated MS Excel® based-SiSE sizing template. Attendees will learn how SiSE uses best practices to quickly estimate requirements and build a credible and defensible cost estimate, based on the experiences with Agile software development programs at DHS.

Presenters

Katharine Mann

Operations Research Analyst

Ms. Katharine (Kammy) Mann and Mr. Ryan Hoang are Operations Research Analysts for the Department of Homeland Security, Cost Analysis Division (CAD) IT / Agile Software Development Team. Ms. Mann and Mr. Hoang are both engineers turned cost analysts and are responsible for approving all IT Software Level 1 & 2 Major Acquisition Program's LCCEs. They are also the Department's experts on Simple Function Point Analysis (SFPA) and leaders in the Joint Agile Software Innovation (JASI) Cost IPT.

Ryan Hoang

Operations Research Analyst

Ms. Katharine (Kammy) Mann and Mr. Ryan Hoang are Operations Research Analysts for the Department of Homeland Security, Cost Analysis Division (CAD) IT / Agile Software Development Team. Ms. Mann and Mr. Hoang are both engineers turned cost analysts and are responsible for approving all IT Software Level 1 & 2 Major Acquisition Program LCCEs. They are also the Department's experts on Simple Function Point Analysis (SFPA) and leaders in the Joint Agile Software Innovation (JASI) Cost IPT.

Carol Dekkers

Founder and CEO of Quality Plus Technologies, Inc.

Ms. Carol Dekkers, PMP, CFPS (Fellow), P.Eng, CSM, AEC, is founder and CEO of Quality Plus Technologies, Inc. She works with government and companies who want to succeed with software measurement and functional size measurement. Recently, Carol also became a charter member of the Heart of Agile consulting team. She is a co-author of several textbooks (The IT Measurement Compendium: Estimating and Benchmarking Success with Functional Size Measurement; Program management toolkit for software and systems development; Practical Software Project Estimation; and others,) and is a frequent speaker worldwide on estimating & measurement.

Chad Lucas

Senior Cost Analyst

Mr. Ryan Hoang, Ms. Katharine (Kammy) Mann, Mr. Chad Lucas, and Ms. Carol Dekkers are senior analysts and well known in the field of software cost estimating and software measurement. Chad Lucas, CCEA®, with over 20 years of experience from Galorath Federal currently supports the DHS, CAD IT group.