Software size is the main driver for project cost estimation By far most cost estimation models for software development, enhancement or maintenance projects use the software size as the main input parameter. Software size is widely recognized as an important…
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What is the state-of-the-art? Agile methodologies nowadays gain popularity and have become a mainstream of software development due to its ability to generate high customer satisfaction. Estimation and metrics consultancy receives more and more ‘Agile assignments’ and are supposed to…
Read MoreScrum and Function Points:
friends or foe
How agile are Function Points? Many organizations have learned that they can get a better grip on their software projects by estimating them with function points. At the same time, we see that more and more organizations have an Agile…
Read MoreThe Software Project Benchmark tool
The tool is live! In November 2014 I announced that within the Software Engineering Research Group of Delft University of Technology we were building a tool that is based on a so-called Cost/Duration Matrix. I am proud and happy at…
Read MoreWe can’t measure Programmer Productivity … or can we?
If you go to Google and search for “measuring software developer productivity” you will find a whole lot of nothing. Seriously — nothing. Nick Hodges, Measuring Developer Productivity By now we should all know that we don’t know how to…
Read MoreParliamentary Investigation
into Governmental ICT-projects
A great need for FPA and Estimating In October 2009 the House of Representatives of the Dutch Government decided to execute more investigations by composing an annual Future- and Research Program. One of these Investigations is the research into Governmental…
Read MoreTroublesome software metrics
cause errors in estimates
Introduction The software industry is one of the largest and most successful industries in history. But software applications are among the most expensive and error-prone manufactured objects in history. Software needs accurate estimates of schedules, costs, and quality. These are…
Read MoreFunctional Size Measures
Are they worth the effort?
I strongly believe they are and I am often surprised and disappointed that more organisations do not implement Functional Size Measures. Productivity is a concept that is widely discussed right from governments at a national level down to individual companies,…
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