Many consultants conduct a student intensive Quantitative Methods in Software Management Workshop began as a software schedule and cost estimating workshop, but broadened in scope to become a basis for software process improvement.
Quantitative management and software estimating are nearly identical in reality. The numbers that determine organization quality or effectiveness are identical to the numbers that determine cost and schedule. Productivity is closely related to cost.
The quantitative workshop tool is the Jensen Model published first in 1979. Two versions of the workshop are available; one uses the Sage estimating tool, the other uses the underlying Jensen model as the estimating tool. The workshop is student-team-based and uses an intensive case study during the 5-day course to maximize the student experience.
