Arlene M.CHIEF SCIENTIST

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  ROLE & BACKGROUND

  Arlene leads PRICE® Research and is responsible for the research and analysis at the forefront of costing trends. During her tenure at PRICE®, she has designed and led the implementation efforts for the company’s predictive analytic cost models. In her role, she leads a team responsible for the research and analysis necessary to keep the suite of PRICE® products responsive to current cost trends. She works with industry leaders to collect and maintain cost research data and offers analyses of this data to the cost estimating community through the PRICE® products and public dissertations. Arlene’s research has been published in books, trade journals, and conference proceedings and has been awarded frequently by the industry. She speaks frequently at conferences on subjects of cost estimating and measurement.

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  EXPERTISE

  Agile Estimation, Data Collection & Analysis, Model Building, Software Estimation, Software Measurement

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  THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

  [Blog] PRICE® Research: 2020 Outlook for Government Contractors & Government Organizations

  [Report] PRICE® Research 2019 Industry ECA Report for B&P Commercial Enterprises

  [Presentation] Agile Estimation – What are We Really Looking For?

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  ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  2021 elected to the Executive Board Member of ICEAA (active board member since  2017)

  International Society of Parametric Analysts (ISPA) Frank Frieman Lifetime Achievement Award

  Drexel Alumni Circle of Distinction Award

  Numerous ISPA best paper awards including topics such as object oriented estimation and estimating for COTS intensive systems

  Holds a patent in parametric costing techniques for object oriented software

  Contributing book author including IT Measurement, The Unified Process Inception Phase, The Closed Loop Implementation Guide for Activity Based Budgeting, and Systems Cost Engineering