Harold van Heeringen

Nowadays, Sogeti Nederland gets more and more questions from clients like: “What is your productivity rate for Java projects?”, “What is your duration for building an application of 1000 function points?” and “What is your price per function point for a .Net project?” Literature shows us however, that there is no good answer to these kinds of questions. Putnam is one of the people that show us that the amount of effort needed for a project highly depends on the duration chosen. Other factors that influence the answer to these questions might be: size, complexity and the amount of work that is being carried out on an offshore location (like India). It is therefore necessary to consider all the relevant factors when preparing a project estimation. However, if this has to be done on an ad hoc basis (whenever a client asks, or whenever a Request for Proposal comes in), it will take a lot of time to analyze the right projects. To make things faster and easier, Sogeti has developed a tool to estimate projects and to answer questions like the questions mentioned above. In the paper the tool and its underlying principles are introduced and the preliminary results are given.

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