Practical software project total cost estimation methods

Author

Hamdan, Khaled ; El Khatib, Hazem ; Shuaib, Khaled

Author_Institution

UAE Univ., Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates

fYear

2010

fDate

2-4 March 2010

Firstpage

5

Lastpage

8

Abstract

Software project management has become a crucial field of research due to the increasing role of software in today´s world. When a project is insufficiently supported, the quality and speed of the project will suffer. Improving the functions of project management is a main concern in software development organizations. The essence of this paper is to estimate software project cost by Analogy estimation model, incorporating organizational and intercultural factors was developed and evaluated. Analysis was done to show how such added factors can improve the overall accuracy of estimating the cost of a project.

Keywords

costing; estimation theory; organisational aspects; project management; software development management; analogy estimation model; intercultural factor; organizational factor; software development organization; software project management; software project total cost estimation method; Absorption; Costs; Cultural differences; Financial management; Packaging; Programming; Project management; Scheduling; Statistical analysis; Supply chains;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Information Technology (MCIT), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sharjah

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7001-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MCIT.2010.5444853

Filename

5444853