Workshop Presenter
Quality Plus Technologies Inc
Workshop: Aligning IT Investment with Business Value: Boardroom Strategies for Software Sizing and Cost Control
Workshop Abstract:
Identifying 5W’s of using measurement data to manage software investments.
Today’s executives invest billions of dollars on software solutions that range from smart highways to AI-enabled medical surgeries to cybersecurity. Software is everywhere, yet it is an intangible product whose development costs billions in capital and labor, yet the fundamentals of software size and productivity (the two software development cost drivers) are seldom understood.
Speaker Bio:
Carol Dekkers is a management consultant and president of Quality Plus Technologies, specializing in workings with organizations who want to keep their promises to their clients through realistic, data-founded estimates. In 2022, she was named the International Cost Estimating and Analysis Association (ICEAA) 2022 Educator of the Year for her work as the lead author for the Software Cost Estimating Body of Knowledge (CEBoK-S). In 2023, Ms. Dekkers was elected to the ICEAA board of directors.
She holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering and is an IFPUG Certified Function Point Specialist (Fellow), a PMP (Project Management Professional) and Certified Sustainability Project Professional (PMI – CSPP), Certified Scrum Master and a P.Eng. (Canada). Ms. Dekkers has authored textbooks on functional size measurement (function Points) and project management and is a frequent presenter and instructor on these topics internationally. She currently consults under contract to U.S. federal government agencies and to the private sector. In Feb 2023, Ms. Dekkers was named one of Consulting Magazine’s 2023 Global Leaders in Consulting for her leadership in pro bono for her contributions to the IFPUG, ASQ, PMI, and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).