Project Estimating: When the design is bigger than the back of a napkin

Do you wonder why you spend so much time working on a project? Do you ever get into a project and realize that a main feature has been overlooked? Have you struggled with a problem to discover someone else on your team already has the magic answer? This session is intended to provide you with information and strategies to estimate realistic time lines and have clients love you. Poor estimates and under bidding projects may win you the project, but won’t help your bottom line. Attend this session to protect yourself from the bad karma that results from disrespecting this critical part of your business. As a business owner and a project lead for a software development company I have discovered that estimating projects is not just a step in the process but is a strategic decision to prevailing in the brutal business of design/build projects. Come learn some of the lessons I have learned estimating projects that range from days to months. Topics include: How to approach estimating large projects? How do I estimate something I haven’t done before? How do you keep from having the big oops? Why design is an essential key to estimating.