An approach to schedule estimation and tracking for rapid development projects

Author

Lovrek, Ignac ; Sinkovic, Vjekoslav ; Grahovac, Dejan ; Caric, Antun

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng., Zagreb Univ., Croatia

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

25-27 Aug 1998

Firstpage

816

Abstract

The paper deals with schedule estimation for rapid development software projects based on a constructive cost model and fine grain tracking implemented by miniature milestones. Rapid development environments suitable for small and medium size new products on open platforms, as well as the products on proprietary platforms achievable with small design changes of the existing software, have been defined. Proposed is a life cycle combining waterfall model with phase overlapping for early development phases, and incremental build for late development phases. Estimation and tracking models are described, as well as a case study of a real project on Internet/WWW/Java platform

Keywords

programming environments; project management; scheduling; software cost estimation; software development management; software prototyping; Internet/WWW/Java platform; case study; constructive cost model; early development phases; fine grain tracking; incremental build; late development phases; miniature milestones; open platforms; phase overlapping; proprietary platforms; rapid development environments; rapid development software projects; real project; schedule estimation; small design changes; tracking; waterfall model; Computer languages; Costs; Internet; Java; Object oriented modeling; Personnel; Processor scheduling; Software engineering; Telecommunication computing; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Euromicro Conference, 1998. Proceedings. 24th

Conference_Location

Vasteras

ISSN

1089-6503

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8646-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EURMIC.1998.708107

Filename

708107