Schedule pressure is often faced by project managers and software developers who want to quickly deploy information systems. Typical strategies to compress project time scales might include adding more staff/personnel, investing in development tools, improving hardware, or improving development methods. The tradeoff between cost, schedule, and performance is one of the most important analyses p...

Offshore software development projects comprise of several critical success factors which may jeopardize the success of such a collaborative development project. We therefore require methods that will help in reducing the risk in such offshore outsourcing software development project. This article introduces a Study based on COCOMO II which can be used to estimate the effort of globally distrib...

This paper summarizes the results of an empirical study conducted to explore the relative importance of eight pertinent COCOMO II model drivers in predicting the understandability of a software project. Here understandability of the project is measured solely from the perspective of the development team. This empirical study employed a survey that was targeted towards experienced practitioners....

Up to this point business process management projects in general and business process modelling projects in particular could not rely on a practical and scientifically validated method to estimate cost and effort. Especially the model development phase is not covered by a cost estimation method or model. Further phases of business process modelling starting with implementation are covered by in...

“software risk” is the measurement of the probability of an unwanted output that could affect the software product’s development process. It always includes the chance of being uncertain and a potential for loss. This paper extends the concepts of Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO) model into fuzzy Expert COCOMO by introducing security factors as additional parameters for the assessment of risk o...

One important problem with software development projects is to get an early and nevertheless accurate estimation of the software development costs. In the literature various methods have been developed for this purpose. The most popular examples are Boehm's COCOMO , Albrecht's function-point method or Sneed's object-point method . The two last-named methods are based on early results of the ana...

In this paper an efficient three- stage algorithm is developed for software production cost and time estimation. First stage includes a hybrid model composed of COCOMO and Function Points methods to increase estimation accuracy. Second stage encompasses paired comparisons matrix of analytical hierarchy process to determine amount of any resources consumed in each step of software production by ...

Özet. Yazılım efor tahmini, yazılım proje yönetiminde çok önemli bir aşamadır. Tahmin değerinin doğruluğu proje başarı ya da başarısızlığına doğrudan etki eder. Yöneticiler uygun kaynakları tahmin etmeye çalışırlar ve bu yönetim için zorlayıcı bir durumdur. Araç ve tekniklerin yardımıyla tahmin süreci daha iyi gerçekleştirilebilir. COCOMO en çok kullanılan, parametrik modellerden biri olarak if...

‘Human factor’ is one of the most relevant and crucial aspects of software development projects management. Aiming at the performance improvement for software processes in organizations, a new model has been developed to diagnose people related processes. This new model is People-CMM and represents a complementary solution to CMM. On the other hand, existing estimation models in Software Engine...