Synopsis
Understand how managerial factors shape software cost estimates and how to boost model portability.
This nonfiction guide examines why quantitative software estimation models often fail to travel between organizations and how adding managerial and environmental factors can improve accuracy. It presents an integrative view using system dynamics to connect planning, staffing, production, and control, all aimed at making estimates reflect real project conditions.
The text draws on experiments and field findings to show how organization-specific environments influence costs. It explains how different manpower policies and effort distributions can change project outcomes, sometimes dramatically. You’ll see concrete examples, from Mohanty’s study of 12 models to the impact of policy choices on schedule and budget, without getting lost in theory.- How traditional cost models can misfit new environments and what portability means in practice.
- Four managerial variables that affect software development costs and how they interact.
- How system dynamics and simulation can reveal the effects of policy choices on schedules and budgets.
- Realistic demonstrations of staffing, training overhead, and effort distribution on project cost.
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