PRICE INSight
May 2004
Cost Estimating

SURVEY: What do you care about?

PRICE Systems wants to know what's important to you and what problems or challenges we can help you solve at our 24th Annual User Symposium 2005 - an event designed to share successes and progress toward better project and cost management.

Click here to tell us what you think by taking a quick, two-minute opinion survey. All of us at PRICE Systems appreciate your feedback!

Costs Contained in Decommissioning of a Nuclear Plant.
PRICE H is Applicable Wherever Costs Are Driven by Size and Complexity.

By PRICE Systems Products Division

While PRICE H is most commonly used to create cost efficiencies in manufacturing-intensive industries such as aeronautics and defense, it is just as applicable to additional industries—including nuclear decommissioning. As long as costs are driven by the size and complexity of an activity, PRICE H is an ideal product.

Click here to learn more about the Nuclear Plant Decommissioning



Project Control

PRICE Opens New Arlington Facility, Honors Key Customers
By PRICE Consulting Division

PRICE Systems president, Anthony DeMarco, used the occasion of the Arlington facility opening to acknowledge three key customers-establishing the company's First Annual Customer Appreciation Event in its Arlington location. Attendees also got to tour the facility, network with their peers and ask questions about PRICE System's Program Affordability Management capabilities. The honored customers were Dave Burgess, cost chief for Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), Bob Young, deputy assistant secretary for cost and economics for the US Army, and Colonel Jacob Haynes, program manager for the Department of Defense's Standard Procurement System.

Click here to learn more about the Open House and Honored Customers



Knowledge Management

PRICE S & True S Redefine Software Cost Metrics Using Use-Case Sizing Methods
Powered by PRICE Research™

Because the nature of software programming has changed, so must the methods of calculating programming costs. By applying Use-Case sizing methods, PRICE Systems is redefining the way project managers approach software cost metrics. PRICE S and now True S have addressed these emerging needs by adding Function Point and Predictive Object Point (POP) calculations that act independently of the more traditional source lines of code (SLOC) calculations.

Click here to learn more about applying Use-Case Sizing Methods


Calendar of Events

June 2004 Training Curriculum
Public Training
6/07: PRICE H - Hardware Project Estimating & Control (5 Days, Mt. Laurel, NJ)
6/15: Fundamentals of Cost Estimating (3 Days, Dayton, OH)
6/16: PRICE S to True S Workshop (FREE, 1/2 Day, Online, 1:00-4:00 pm EST)
6/21: True S - Software Project Planning & Control (3 Days, Dayton, OH)
Special Offers
6/23: EVM - Earned Value Management (2 Days, Arlington, VA)
Purchase one seat at $900 and receive a second seat at a 50% discount
New Courses
Software Project Planning and Control with True COCOMO II (2 Days)
This course is being tailored for on-site agency and contractor training

For additional details, please contact:
Corrine Tarcelli, Client Relations Manager
856.608.7206, corrine.tarcelli@pricesystems.com


June 15, 2004
SCEA National Conference & Education Workshop
(The Society of Cost Estimating and Analysis)

Manhattan Beach, CA
PRICE Systems Presentations:
> Predictive EVM (Earned Value Management)
William Mathis, Director of Civilian Programs
> Estimating Future Capability
Bruce Fad, Vice President of Products Division
> Estimating Software Costs for Software Products
David Seaver, Director of Software Cost Center of Excellence
> The Real Costs of Developing COTS-Based Systems
Arlene Minkiewicz, Chief Scientist
> Continuous Knowledge Capture of System-Wide Parametric and EVM Data
Kevin McKeel, Executive Consultant
Learn more and register!
Also visit PRICE Systems at booth #6


June 21-24, 2004
NDIA - 4th Annual Intelligent Vehicle Systems Symposium
(National Defense Industrial Association)

Traverse City, MI
PRICE Systems Presentations:
> Cost Estimating CAD Solution for FCS
Guy Franklin, OFCM Program Manager
Learn more!


Call for Papers: 24th Annual European Symposium
Athens, Greece
PRICE Systems is now accepting papers for its 24th Annual European Symposium. Submissions should be based on your experiences using the PRICE Cost Models.
Deadline for submission has been extended to June 30, 2004
Actual date of event is November 17-19, 2004
Learn more about this submission!