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Ultimately a project manager must determine the best method to motivate their team; the greatest leaders in business use oration to inspire; money to reward and business intelligence to analyze effectiveness. Methods and Tests Schwable states that there are the following motivations i ; I ntrinsic Motivation is classified as motivation that is derived from the nature of the work; ie; a boat builder probably enjoy's sailing, which may be why they studied the profession; a writer may enjoy writing; a programmer may enjoy thinking in mathematical abstraction or the challenge of reorganization abstracted data in a useful way. Extrinsic Motivation is classified as the tratditional risk reward axis, reward of money for services rendered, risk of bieng unemployed or homeless. These are “Extrinsic” to the subject in question. The following psychological models may be used; Myers-Briggs ii otherwise refereed to as the MTBI indicator test. Abraham Maslow, and his Hie...

Schwable states that Estimates are difficult for the following Reasons i : Estimates are done too quickly Lack of Estimate Experience Humans are biased towards underestimation Management Desires Accuracy In addition to these difficulties there are many methods that may be used to estimate the cost of a software project including: Top-Down Estimates ii Bottom Up Estimates iii Parametric Modeling iv COCOMO v COSYSMO vi Event Chain Methodology vii Function Points viii Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT) ix Proxy Based Estimation (PROBE) x The Planning Game xi Weighted Micro Function Points xii Wideband Delphi xiii Thus far within the confines of project estimation that we have examined the art of “triangulating” a project estimation method using a top-down and bottom up approach promises to be both the most efficent and accurate method; However Grimstad et al. State that one of the greatest risks of failure for any software project is a ...