DocumentCode
749420
Title
A General Empirical Solution to the Macro Software Sizing and Estimating Problem
Author
Putnam, Lawrence H.
Author_Institution
Space Division, Information Systems Programs, General Electric Company
Issue
4
fYear
1978
fDate
7/1/1978 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
345
Lastpage
361
Abstract
Application software development has been an area of organizational effort that has not been amenable to the normal managerial and cost controls. Instances of actual costs of several times the initial budgeted cost, and a time to initial operational capability sometimes twice as long as planned are more often the case than not.
Keywords
Application software estimating; quantitative software life-cycle management; sizing and scheduling large scale software pro-jects; software life-cycle costing; software sizing; Computer industry; Costs; Financial management; Job shop scheduling; Productivity; Programming profession; Project management; Software development management; Software standards; State estimation; Application software estimating; quantitative software life-cycle management; sizing and scheduling large scale software pro-jects; software life-cycle costing; software sizing;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0098-5589
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TSE.1978.231521
Filename
1702544
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