Developing project duration models in software engineering

Authors:
Pierre Bourque;Serge Oligny;Alain Abran;Bertrand Fournier
Affiliations:
École de Technologie Supérieure, Montréal, Québec, Canada;Bell Canada, Montréal, Québec, Canada;École de Technologie Supérieure, Montréal, Québec, Canada;Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Venue:
Journal of Computer Science and Technology
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Based on the empirical analysis of data contained in the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group (ISBSG) repository, this paper presents software engineering project duration models based on project effort. Duration models are built for the entire dataset and for subsets of projects developed for personal computer, mid-range and mainframe platforms. Duration models are also constructed for projects requiring fewer than 400 person-hours of effort and for projects requiring more than 400 person-hours of effort. The usefulness of adding the maximum number of assigned resources as a second independent variable to explain duration is also analyzed. The opportunity to build duration models directly from project functional size in function points is investigated as well.