Today, we had Ricardo Valerdi as guest lecturer in our System & Project Management (SPM) class. He spoke about Constructive System Engineering Cost Model (COSYSMO), a model to estimate cost in complex, large-scale system engineering projects. At first, I consider the model to be some hocus-pocus black magic model that anyone can arbitrarily create. However, towards the end of the lecture, I think I am pretty much sold on the benefits of the COSYSMO model. I think that any concept (complex or simple) has to have a supporting tool to prove its worth. You can download COSYSMO model written in Excel from here. There is also a wealth of information about COSYSMO at Velerdi's website.

11/29/2005 11:54:33 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

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