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		<title>Galorath / Reifer Team To Provide Large Project Success Via Risk Assessments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are excited to announce a new addition to the services Galorath has to offer.  Dan Galorath (CEO and President of Galorath Incorporated) and Don Reifer (President of Reifer Consultants) have combined their collective seventy years of software development experience to offer: Independent Risk Assessments Risk Assessment Teams provide expert-level independent assessment services to determine [...]
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		<link>http://www.galorath.com/wp/galorath-reifer-team-to-provide-large-project-success-via-risk-assessments.php</link>
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		<title>The 6 Characteristics of Effective Metrics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had the pleasure of meeting and working with Bob Lewis of Infoworld and CIO magazines recently.  In looking through his many excellent blogs I noticed this one today. It sumarizes a viable metrics program very well and is compatible with the goal, question, metric approach.  He calls it the 6 C's of effective metrics: [...]
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		<link>http://www.galorath.com/wp/the-6-characteristics-of-effective-metrics.php</link>
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		<title>FPGA Sticker Shock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Galorath&#8217;s Sam Sanchez works extensively with IC&#8217;s and with understanding the cost if IC&#8217;s. He provided the following: Over the past year or so, we have been doing FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) material cost research updates in support of our next SEER-IC release and I can’t help being shocked at the recurring costs of [...]
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		<link>http://www.galorath.com/wp/fpga-sticker-shock.php</link>
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		<title>2012 Defense Strategic Guidance Summary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is a summary by Galorath&#8217;s Chris Hutchings of the briefing  on January 6, 2012 by Mr. Frank Kendall (Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics) regarding the Strategic Guidance given by the President, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Gen. Dempsey) and the Defense Secretary (Mr. Panetta). While the specifics [...]
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		<link>http://www.galorath.com/wp/defense-strategic-guidance-summary.php</link>
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		<title>Cost Readiness Level (CRL) Establishing Cost Risk Based On Engineering Decisions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am working on a paper for NASA&#8217;s project manager conference.  In the course of this work I again reviewed the interesting work performed by Dr. Joe Hamaker while he was head of cost for NASA in establishing cost uncertainty before parametric models like SEER were used, and again after the system had been more [...]
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		<link>http://www.galorath.com/wp/cost-readiness-level-crl-establishing-cost-risk-based-on-information-detail.php</link>
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		<title>APMP Cost Task Force Industry / Government Questions &amp; Responses</title>
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		<title>New SEER Labor Rate Calculator: A Leap Forward in &#8220;Should Cost&#8221; &amp; &#8220;Will Cost&#8221;</title>
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		<title>Frank Vogelezang Pricing Vs Costing &amp; Proof That IT Systems Can Be Estimated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Frank Vogelezang of Ordina&#8216;s presentation at the Galorath conference in the Netherlands yielded numerous interesting and well prepared presentations by customers and partners.  The presentation included here:  Estimating &#38; Pricing of Application Management covered the processes for estimating what the problem will cost and the separate processes for pricing what will be charged to the [...]
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		<title>APMP Cost Taskforce November 2011: Helping Calm the Storm of Budget Cuts Via Cost Analysis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the November 2011 meeting the APMP cost task force regrouped with Dan Galorath as the Chair.  The cost task force&#8217;s mission is to help resolve the differences between government and contractor positions in cost.  The PowerPoint including the history and new goals is here. Quintin Redmond also offered his systems engineering paper Why Affordability [...]
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		<title>CMMI and SEER Applicability: Estimation, Planning &amp; Control Processes and SEER Integration</title>
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