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You work as the project manager for Changing Tides video games. Your project is a long-term project and will be finished in three phases over the next two years. You have gathered the inputs for the Estimate Activity Durations process and are ready to yield the activity duration estimates. Your funder would like a project estimate for all three phases by the end of the week. He knows that at this stage it will be a rough order of magnitude estimate and not entirely accurate. Select the tools and techniques will you followto produce this estimate?

A Analogous estimating

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Analogous estimating is less time-consuming than other estimating techniques and can be used to estimate time for different phases on the project. Analogous estimating is not as accurate as other estimating techniques.

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