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In today’s software industry, where dynamism, adaptability to change and competitiveness are the key words, measurements have become a necessary and important tool for the organizations. Using only the gut feeling or intuition when making decisions regarding company’s future development…
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For an increasing number of companies, the agile development and modification of their software has become the standard approach. Users are happier because they see the desired changes in the softwaremore quickly. Developers are happier because they are in direct contact with users…
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Many organizations outsource (parts of) their IT services. To select a supplier these organizations use as decision criteria: Price and Quality (measured as timely delivery, scope and number of defects found during acceptance testing). They trust that they can trust…
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Two worlds for software project estimating It appears at first sight that there are two worlds for software project estimating which, for simplicity, I will call the ‘Chaotic’ and the ‘Controlled’ worlds. The Chaotic world is characterised by the majority of…
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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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