Estimate Easy UC™ is recognized as a leader in the Project Management Tools category

LEESPORT, PA - March 29, 2004 - Duvessa Software, an award wining developer of software estimation tools for use case driven projects, today announced Estimate Easy UC™ (EEUC™) has won a Jolt Productivity award.

Each year, the Jolt Awards, sponsored by Software Development magazine recognize outstanding contribution, leadership and excellence in software development arena. For the past 14 years the magazine has been recognizing leaders in the industry. More than 92 companies and 800 attendees were at the awards ceremony. Editors, columnists, and industry experts evaluated over 300 nominations from 14 categories for products that 'jolted' the industry by helping to create software that is faster, easy to use and efficient. The awards were announced on March 17th, 2004 at SD West in Santa Clara, California, and will be honored in the June 2004 issue of Software Development.

EEUC™ is a comprehensive and easy to use, use case estimation tool that imports data from Rational Rose™, IBM Rational XDE®, IBM Rational RequisitePro™, Microsoft Visio™ and XMI 1.1 files. The next version of EEUC™, planned for release next month, will support COCOMO II level 1. Users of EEUC™ will be able to estimate their use case driven projects early and often using two methodologies. Download a free trial version of Estimate Easy UC™ from http://www.duvessa.com.

About Duvessa Software™

Duvessa Software™ is a privately held company dedicated to the development of tools for agile software teams. Duvessa Software offers Estimate Easy UC™ in Professional and Enterprise editions. Duvessa Software™ also offers object-oriented analysis and design, use case development and requirements consulting. For more information visit www.duvessa.com.