Evaluating Gas Reserve and Project Cost Using Multistage Scenario Process on Gas Development Project

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to find good values of onsite-offshore team strength; number of hours of communication between business users and onsite team and between onsite and offshore team so as to reduce project cost and improve schedule in a global software development (GSD) environment for software development project. Design/methodology/approach – This study employs system dynamics simulation approach to study software project characteristics in both co-located and distributed development environments. The authors consulted 14 experts from Indian software outsourcing industry during our model construction and validation. Findings – The study results show that there is a drop in overall team productivity in outsourcing environment by considering the offshore options. But the project cost can be reduced by employing the offshore team for coding and testing work only with minimal training for imparting business knowledge. The research results show that there is a potential to save project cost by being flexible in project schedule. Research limitations/implications – The implication of the study is that the project management team should be careful not to keep high percentage of manpower at offshore location in distributed software environment. A large offshore team can increase project cost and schedule due to higher training overhead, lower productivity and higher error proneness. In GSD, the management effort should be to keep requirement analysis and design work at onsite location and involves the offshore team in coding and testing work. Practical implications – The software project manager can use the model results to divide the software team between onsite and offshore location during various phases of software development in distributed environment. Originality/value – The study is novel as there is little attempt at finding the team distribution between onsite and offshore location in GSD environment.

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Motivation for Writing the Paper Risk Effect on Offshore Systems Development Project Cost

Journal of Computing and Information Technology ◽

10.2498/cit.1001830 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 109

Author(s):

Gerald DeHondt II ◽

George Nezlek

Keyword(s):

Systems Development ◽

Development Project ◽

Project Cost ◽

Risk Effect

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Risk Effect on Offshore Systems Development Project Cost

Journal of Computing and Information Technology ◽

10.2498/cit.1001816 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 111

Author(s):

Gerald DeHondt II ◽

George Nezlek

Keyword(s):

Systems Development ◽

Development Project ◽

Project Cost ◽

Risk Effect

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The Precise Estimation of Development Project Cost and its Life Cycle

Vestnik of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics ◽

10.21686/2413-2829-2021-6-5-16 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 5-16

Author(s):

I. L. Vladimirova ◽

Yu Yu. Kosareva ◽

G. Yu. Kallaur ◽

A. A. Tsygankova

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle ◽

Affordable Housing ◽

Cost Estimation ◽

Cost Management ◽

Development Project ◽

Life Cycles ◽

Design Parameters ◽

Project Cost ◽

Precise Estimation ◽

Project Life

Development plays a significant role in working out national projects in the field of house-building aimed at providing high-quality and affordable housing for the population of Russia. The key indicator for the development project is its cost, which affects both affordability for the population and finance and economic figures of the developer. Therefore, the system of cost management in the development company shall be formalized on the basis of design parameters, characterizing the project cost at all stages of the life cycle. The article proposes to use four interconnected indicators, the precise estimation of the project cost is assumed to be the principle one in the research. The authors worked out the model of development project cost management with due regard to stages of its life cycle, showed key events and relevant control points to assess precision, investigated and described methods of cost estimation at certain stages of the project life cycle (PLC). On the basis of real development projects they analyzed precision of cost estimation by stages of life cycle and plotted the graph ‘precision funnel’. The general positive dynamics in precise cost estimation was discovered, however the range of indicator incoherence would not allow us to adopt universal recommendations on its appraisal. The analysis showed the necessity to improve precision of cost estimation at early stages of project life cycles, which impacts the efficiency of the development project.

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Writing Funding Proposals for Speech-Language Staff Development Projects

Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools ◽

10.1044/0161-1461.1303.163 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 163-171

Author(s):

Carol A. Esterreicher ◽

Ralph J. Haws

Keyword(s):

Staff Development ◽

Development Project ◽

Project Manager ◽

State Funding ◽

Service Needs ◽

School Environments ◽

Speech Language Pathologists ◽

Service Programs ◽

Speech Language Pathologist ◽

Special Programs

Speech-language pathologists providing services to handicapped children have pointed out that special education in-service programs in their public school environments frequently do not satisfy the need for updating specific diagnostic and therapy skills. It is the purpose of this article to alert speech-language pathologists to PL 94-142 regulations providing for personnel development, and to inform them of ways to seek state funding for projects to meet their specialized in-service needs. Although a brief project summary is included, primarily the article outlines a procedure whereby the project manager (a speech-language pathologist) and the project director (an administrator in charge of special programs in a Utah school district) collaborated successfully to propose a staff development project which was funded.

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