Software Project Cost and Schedule Estimating: Best Practices

Powerful, scientific techniques are presented for confidently producing and defending accurate software development estimates and schedules. Leading software costing expert William H. Roetzheim walks through all three forms of estimating and shows how to generate estimates of lines of code, function points, GUI metrics, object metrics, and more. The book comes with a free evaluation copy of CostExpert, one of the most powerful Windows-based costing tools available.

WILLIAM H. ROETZHEIM is Chief Executive Officer at Marotz, Inc., a Delphi development shop headquartered in the San Diego area with offices nationwide. A leading expert on software costing and scheduling, he lectures frequently on this topic and is regularly brought into projects in order to provide independent cost, risk, and schedule analysis support, including jobs over $50 million for the state of California. Mr. Roetzheim can be reached at RoetzheimW@marotz.

REYNA A. BEASLEY is a Technical Analyst with Marotz, Inc. Ms. Beasley has assisted Mr. Roetzheim on several independent cost, risk, and schedule analysis projects for the state of California. Ms. Beasley can be reached at BeasleyR@marotz.