A model of correlated team behaviour in a software development environment

Author

Potok, Thomas E. ; Vouk, Mladen A.

Author_Institution

Oak Ridge Nat. Lab., TN, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

280

Lastpage

283

Abstract

In today´s highly competitive software development environments, accurately estimating software duration and cost can often mean the difference between project success or failure. Traditional software development estimation techniques often assume that software development teams operate independently from task to task. This assumption allows task covariances to be ignored. However, there is ample evidence that, in practice, the behaviour of a software development team over a project life-cycle has strong “memory” of previous tasks and external influences. This means that the accuracy of software development estimates may suffer due to this simplifying assumption of no-correlation. We present a model that we use to describe correlated team behaviour in a software development environment

Keywords

costing; human factors; planning; project management; software development management; correlated team behaviour; cost estimation; duration estimation; project management; software development; task covariances; Costs; Electrical capacitance tomography; Identity-based encryption; Probability density function; Processor scheduling; Production; Programming; State estimation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Application-Specific Systems and Software Engineering and Technology, 1999. ASSET '99. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Richardson, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0122-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASSET.1999.756781

Filename

756781