A Macro Approach to Software Resource Estimation and Life Cycle Control.

Abstract

Planning and controlling the software development process has shown, in the past, to be an extremely difficult task. The estimation of resource requirements, development costs, risk profiles and project feasibility has often proven to be inaccurate, this costing the government time and dollars. However, by using obtainable management parameters, and simple engineering and operations research techniques, estimating can be done easily and accurately by taking a macro approach to the estimation problem. This study will present the background and mathematical basis for a software cost estimation model. In addition, an example of an automated application of the model will be presented and discussed. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA114520

Entities

People

  • Blair Roland Vorgang

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Governments
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Life Cycle Management
  • Life Cycles
  • Linear Programming
  • Manpower Utilization
  • Operations Research
  • Organizational Structure
  • Software Development

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis