Title :
The ROI of Systems Engineering: Some Quantitative Results
Author :
Boehm, Barry ; Valerdi, Ricardo
Author_Institution :
Center for Syst. & Software Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
This paper presents quantitative results on the return on investment of systems engineering (SE-ROI) from an analysis of the 161 software projects in the COCOMO II database. The analysis shows that, after normalizing for the effects of other cost drivers, the cost difference between projects doing a minimal job of software systems engineering - as measured by the thoroughness of its architecture definition and risk resolution - and projects doing a very thorough job was 18% for small projects and 92% for very large software projects as measured in lines of code.
Keywords :
investment; project management; software cost estimation; software development management; COCOMO II database; architecture definition; cost difference; cost drivers; return on investment; risk resolution; software project; software system engineering; Computer architecture; Costs; Data analysis; Data engineering; Databases; Investments; Risk analysis; Software measurement; Software systems; Systems engineering and theory; COCOMO; return on investment;
Conference_Titel :
Exploring Quantifiable IT Yields, 2007. EQUITY '07. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Amsterdam
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2537-2
DOI :
10.1109/EQUITY.2007.14
