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
fDate :
7/1/1978 12:00:00 AM
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;
Journal_Title :
Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TSE.1978.231521
