ACEIT January 31 - February 2, 2011
FESS PARKER'S DOUBLETREE RESORT * SANTA BARBARA, CA

ACEIT 5th ANNUAL USER WORKSHOP
25 Years  
         
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Monday, January 31st *
Monday kicks off the 5th Annual ACEIT User Workshop.  Registration is from 3:00pm until 7:00pm.  The Opening Night Reception will have a variety of food and drinks for your enjoyment.  Join us in the Reagan Room for both opening day events.

 

3:00-7:00

Registration

5:00-8:00

Opening Night Reception
Reagan Room



Tuesday, February 1st*
Tuesday is the first day of sessions and will begin with this year's keynote speaker, Mr. Joe Dean.  Tuesday morning sessions, breakfast and lunch will take place in the Reagan Room.  The afternoon breakout sessions, where you can select from sessions in two separate tracks, will take place in the Sierra Madre North and South conference rooms.
 

7:30-8:45

Registration and Breakfast
Reagan Room

8:45-9:00

Call to order

9:00-9:45

Keynote Speaker
Mr. Joe Dean
AFCAA Operating Location Chief
Hanscom AFB

9:45-10:00

Break

10:00-10:45

Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks - Moving Beyond Excel Estimates
Chris Gardiner and Wilson Edwards (Tecolote)

10:45-11:00

Break

11:00-11:45

ACEIT 7.3 Sneak Peek
Mike Allen and Sabrina Beane (Tecolote)

11:45-1:00

LUNCH

1:00-1:45

SPECIFIC ACEIT CAPABILITIES
Sierra Madre North

REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS
Sierra Madre South

Implementing Non-OSD Inflation indices using ACE and the ACEIT Librarian
Sue Catala (Tecolote)

Integrating Excel, R, and ACEIT for a Comprehensive Analysis Package
Karen Mourikas (Boeing)
Denise Nelson (Boeing)

1:50-2:35

Enhancing ACEIT Capabilities with JIAT
Daniel Schwartz (ODASA-CE)  Melissa Cyrulik (Tecolote)

ESC/Aerial Networking Div - Leveraging ACEIT's What-If Capabilities for Platform Integration
Ryan Archambault-Miliner (ESC)
William Lane (Tecolote)

2:35-3:00

Break

3:00-3:40

Streamlining Data Table Calculations
Gina Fennell (Tecolote)

Finding the Optimal Budget Profile given a Risk Adjusted Phased Estimate
Steve Wilson (NASA JSC) Antonio Rippe (Tecolote)

3:45-4:45

Lead/Lag Columns - What are they & How do I use them?
Daniel Garcia (Tecolote)

Army's Implementation of Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA)
Monica Malia (ODASACE)
Brian Jacobs (ODASACE)
Business Case Analysis for Operational Projects
Kishore Gagrani (Price)


Sessions End

 

Wednesday, February 2nd*
Wednesday is the second day of sessions and will start in the Reagan Room for breakfast and then you move to Sierra Madre North and South for the breakout sessions.  Lunch will be back in the Reagan Room with afternoon sessions and closing remarks.
 

7:00-8:15

Breakfast
Reagan Room

8:30-9:15

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS
Sierra Madre North

MODELING TECHNIQUES
Sierra Madre South

Using Unitized Uncertainty Distributions in ACE
Jeff McDowell (Tecolote)

Evolution of Equations
Wanda Thomas (AMCOM)

9:20-10:05

Joint Cost and Schedule Uncertainty: A How-to Primer
Steve Sultzer (Galorath)
Tom Walker (Tecolote)

Calculating "Workdays" for Schedule-driven Estimates
John Sandberg (Tecolote)

10:05-10:30

Break

10:30-11:15

Using ACEIT Technology to Conduct Schedule Risk Analysis
Steve Wilson and
Charles Hunt (NASA)
Darren Elliott (Tecolote)

An Improved Method for Predicting Software Code Growth: Tecolote DSLOC Estimate Growth
Michael Ross (Tecolote)

11:20-12:00

Implementing the Discrete Statistical Scenario-Based (DSSB) Cost-Risk ACEIT Utility
David Graham (AFCAA/FMS/SMC)

Strategies for Developing a Drill-Friendly Cost Model
Jessica Tucker (TACOM)

12:00-1:15

LUNCH

1:15-1:45

ACEIT Trivia

1:45-2:30

Estimate Set-up for What-ifs and Faster Updates
Ray Radovich (Tecolote)

2:30-2:45 Break

2:45-3:30

Understanding the Link between Tornado,
Variance Analysis and Allocated RI$K Dollars

Alf Smith (Tecolote)

3:30-3:45

Closing Remarks

3:45

Workshop End

*Agenda subject to change


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Monday January 31, 2011
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Tuesday February 1, 2011
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Wednesday February 2, 2011
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