Paper Info
Title
Knowledge Construction for Efficient Man-month Estimation in Software Development.
Abstract
It is important to share the reasoning evidence between contractor (IT vendor) and contractee (customer) when entering into a software development project, to achieve satisfactory agreement in estimating development volume. However, IT vendors usually find it difficult to explain the detail of system complexity to customers who have little knowledge about software development. This tends to result in complaint and dissatisfaction for such estimating effort. In this paper, we have applied CoBRA(Cost estimation Benchmarking and Risk Assessment) method for evaluating system requirement, found that the system complexity and the performance requirement are closely related as the cause of estimation discrepancy between IT vendor and customer, and made it clear that the visual explanation for these two factors is a key for the success of software development. (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.procs.2015.08.283
Procedia Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Software estimateion,Variation factor
Data mining,Software deployment,Computer science,Vendor,Cost estimate,Software metric,Software verification and validation,System requirements,Benchmarking,Software development
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
60
1877-0509
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tsuyoshi Shida100.34
Yoshikatsu Fujita2149.36
Kazuhiko Tsuda310847.18