SEC 2007

I and four of my colleagues were to B'lore this Friday for presenting our white paper on Software Estimation Technique.

Couple of months back Sundeep, our Quality Lead, came to us with the invitation from QAI inviting papers on SE. We agreed to sent a paper. Last time I presented a paper was during my college. Presenting to students and experts will never be the same.

We have build round the Formulae that we have derived and sent the paper just on time. We were not serious, we were taken by surprise when our paper was selected as one of the 11 papers for the final presentation at B'lore. As an org. we do very little on estimation for our projects. We have managed to jump over the hurdles from Public Affair, Travel Desk and Finance.

Representations from companies like Polaris, Infosys etc dominated the show. Few of the speakers were actually tried to address some of the problems in estimation in the industry. Few presentations were incomplete as the speakers were cautious about sharing the company's confidential information.

A great learning experience. We have done well to the best of our ability but still have a long way to go.