Facilitating Cooperation in Global Software Design via Micro-Estimation

Rescheduling design tasks is essential to reduce the impact of communication delay in global cooperative software design. However, it is difficult due to the undetermined duration, delay and task sequence. Micro-estimation on demand refines the estimation of effort and duration for the tasks in the next short period. When using multiple component status transition graph (MCSTG) together with micro-estimation, we may easily obtain the possibility of a task and the available time for this task to be finished. With the extended MCSTG, the designers may reschedule the tasks according to the critical and importance so as to facilitate the cooperation